Round tables

Isabelle Cohen Solal is a Business Consultant for Swiss and international institutions. After studying business in England and obtaining a Master’s degree in Finance in France, Mrs Cohen Solal was Manager of International Equity Funds and Diversified Funds in Paris (France). In 2000, she moved to Geneva and joined a private bank as relationship manager and head of product management. In 2006, she took over the traditional and alternative fund selection team for discretionary mandates of a foreign bank in Switzerland. She then joined Swisscanto to manage the French-speaking fund distribution entity and to look after institutional clients. Following the takeover by Zürcher Kantonalbank, she became Vice-President, head of banking relations for Latin Switzerland. Since 2019, she’s been carrying out specific assignments for institutional clients in the various fields of sustainable finance, strategy and business development. She is Board Member in various industries, also Chair of 100 Women in Finance Geneva, Business Angel and has been appointed Expert for Innosuisse, the swiss innovation agency.

Fabian Lütz is currently a Researcher and PhD Candidate at the University of Lausanne (UNIL). Between 2015 and 2020, Fabian worked as a Legal Officer at the European Commission (DG Justice and Consumers, Gender Equality Unit). At the European Commission, Fabian worked on legal questions of gender equality and non-discrimination with a particular focus on issues of Work-Life Balance. Fabian obtained his legal education in France (Licence and Maîtrise en droit (Paris, 2006, 2007)), Germany (First State Exam, 2010; Second State Exam, 2013) and Belgium (LL.M. European Law and Economic Analysis, College of Europe, Bruges, 2011) and conducted a research stay as visiting researcher in the United Kingdom (Queen Mary University London, 2015). Previously, he worked for law firms in Germany and Belgium and completed his German Legal Training (Referendariat) inter alia with an international law firm, at the European Commission (DG Competition) and the Court of Justice of the European Union. His research interests include European Law, Gender equality and Non-discrimination law, Work-Life Balance, Competition Law, Regulation of AI/algorithms and behavioral economics.

Heather Cairns-Le is Adjunct Professor of Leadership at IMD, an experienced leadership development professional whose work involves the design and delivery of executive learning, research into leadership and organizational development, group facilitation and executive coaching. She has designed and run programs for senior executives and management teams at top European and U.S. Business Schools and for many international organizations. Heather’s research focuses on the development of self-awareness, authenticity and sensemaking and the role of metaphor in break-through thinking and creativity

Fabio Monnet is a Youth Internet Governance activist. Proponent of online privacy and equality. Sceptical of online monopolies and pro democratisation of the cyberspace. His background is in international affairs (UNISG) and environmental sciences (UNIGE). He is a member of the steering committee of the Swiss IGF, representing the voice of young people. 

Jessica Pidoux is a sociologist and holds a PhD in Digital Humanities from the EPFL. Her research focuses on the design and usage of
matching algorithmic systems in online dating. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in citizen science at CEE, Sciences Po Paris, and director of the Swiss non-profit association PersonalData.IO where she builds with civil society participative methods for data
governance.

Marie-Pierre Vidonne is a physicist by training. After several years working in R&D in the public and private sectors, in February 2021 she joined Hestia.ai as an analyst, in charge of subsidies and consortium building. She has also been a voluntary contributor to the wiki of PersonalData.io for several years and in Wikimedia projects. She is particularly interested in the ecosystem of adtechs and linked personal data.

Ilir Ahmeti is a political science student and a trade-unionist. He is in charge of prevention for the Georgette in Love program of the PROFA  foundation (prevention in sexual health).

Pauline Ferrari is a journalist specializing in new technologies, Web cultures and communities. She has a degree in Media, Culture and Technologies from the University of Montreal and a Master’s in Journalism from Sciences Po Toulouse. She has worked with media such as Numerama, Vice, Korii, TETU, Louie Media, Konbini Techno and Konbini News, and Pixels du Monde.fr. Since January 2020 she has run a podcast on sexualities and sex in real life, Comic Sans MST.

Anna Jobin is a Senior researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute of Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin. Previous affiliations include ETH Zurich, Tufts University and Cornell University. Her research focuses on the intersection of science, digital technology and society. She currently leads an international research project on « Artificial Intelligence » as a sociotechnical institution in politics, media and science. She is also the president of the extra-parliamentary Swiss Federal Media Commission, an inaugural member of the Swiss Young Academy, and a lecturer at the Management Center Innsbruck as well as at EPFL.