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Yves Daccord is a renowned humanitarian leader, international strategist, influencer and changemaker. His current focus is on the theme of the impact of Covid-19 on our social contract and the role of cities in the age of digital surveillance and pandemics—the subject of a special initiative at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. […]

Before joining Wellcome Trust as its Director, Jeremy Farrar was Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam. In addition to being listed 12th on Fortune magazine’s 50 World’s Greatest Leaders in 2015, he has also received the Memorial Medal and Ho Chi Minh City Medal from the Government of Vietnam. In 2018 […]

Jan Swafford’s music has been played around the country and abroad by ensembles including the symphonies of St. Louis, Indianapolis, and the Dutch Radio; Boston’s new-music groups Musica Viva, Collage, and Dinosaur Annex; and chamber ensembles including the Peabody Trio, the Chamber Orchestra of Tennessee, and the Scott Chamber Players of Indianapolis. Over the years […]

Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations, which operates in more than 90 countries. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 1987, Roth served as a federal prosecutor in New York and for the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington, DC. A graduate of Yale […]

Bruno Mégevand is an attorney at law admitted to the Bar of Geneva. After practising as an associate in the law firm of Me Jean-Philippe Maître from 1983 until 1986, he became an independant lawyer. In 1989, he founded the law firm Megevand & Grosgean which became Notter, Megevand and Grosjean. Since 2002, he is […]

A graduate in economics, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe has spent a significant part of his career in Latin America with Nestlé. Upon his return to Switzerland, he took on various roles in the strategic, marketing and communication fields before becoming CEO and then Chairman of the Board of Directors. He was a Board Member of several large […]

Eduard Wulfson was born in Riga in 1953 and began his study of the violin at the age of six, giving his first concert at The Riga Conservatory at the age of nine. His early teacher, Professor Sturestep, was followed by Professor Waiman at the Conservatory of St Petersburg, and by Professor Bezrodny at the […]

Menahem Pressler, founding member and pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio, has established himself among the world’s most distinguished and honored musicians, with a career that spans over five decades. Now 90 years old, he continues to captivate audiences throughout the world as performer and pedagogue, performing solo and chamber music recitals to great critical […]

Award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys an illustrious career, working with orchestras like the Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and BBC Symphony, alongside renowned conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Gianandrea Noseda, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and many others. Highlights of his 2023/24 season include tours with the Philharmonia Orchestra in China, performances of Ravel with the Lähti Symphony, […]

Tabea Zimmermann began learning the viola at the age of three, and two years later began playing the piano. In the beginning, she received significant inspiration from her first teacher Dietmar Mantel. She studied with Ulrich Koch at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and subsequently with Sandor Végh at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Following her studies, she received several awards […]