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James Larus Academic Director |
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Professor and former Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Larus was previously a researcher, Manager, and Director at Microsoft Research for over 16 years and an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
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Marie-Valentine Florin Executive Director |
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Marie-Valentine Florin organises IRGC’s collaborative activities, focusing in particular on the role of IRGC as a multi-stakeholder platform and a convening place at the interface between science and policy. She graduated from Science Po in Paris (public policy and management) and then earned post-graduate diplomas in marketing strategy, sustainable development and environmental diplomacy. She spent the first part of her career (1984-1999) in an international socio-cultural research and marketing consulting firm. She joined the IRGC Foundation in 2006. Marie-Valentine Florin is a member of the Advisory Board to the Global Risk Report of the World Economic Forum and a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis.
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Gérard Escher Member of Management Team |
+41 21 693 91 62 |
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Gérard Escher obtained his diploma in biology at the University of Geneva, and his PhD in Neurosciences at the University of Lausanne. He joined the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University as a Postdoctoral Fellow. After his return to Switzerland (University of Lausanne), he led a research group working on synapse formation. In 1999, he became Scientific Advisor to Secretary of State Charles Kleiber. Gérard became Assistant Director at the State Secretariat for Education and Research in 2005, in charge of science policy and forecast. In 2008, Gérard Escher moved to the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, where he acts as Senior Advisor to the President. |
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Anca-Georgiana Rusu Project Manager |
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Anca Rusu helps organise [email protected]’s expert events, disseminates the outcome of the projects and handles their communication and outreach. She is a PMP certified project manager with a Master in Social Sciences focused on communication and culture, from the University of Lausanne. She has a Bachelor degree in communication and public relation from the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest. She started her career as an account executive for an advertising agency in Bucharest. Moving to Lausanne, she became a project manager for a consulting company, developing marketing strategies and organising workshop and conferences. Anca Rusu is interested in collaborative strategies and the governance of opportunities and risks associated with new technologies.
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Rainer Sachs External consultant |
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Rainer Sachs is a senior risk researcher and risk management expert. He is the founder and owner of the Sachs-Institute, a transdisciplinary think tank for better coping with risk and uncertainty. Rainer Sachs’s current research interests focus on modelling complex risks in insurance and human behaviour in decisions under uncertainty. A main objective of his work is the transfer of research results into risk management practices.
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Luana Huguenin Administrative Specialist |
+41 21 693 80 02 |
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