Fireside Chat: Finance's New Normal Under the Trump Administration
Speakers
CEO • Trust Valley
Lennig Pedron has expertise in cybersecurity and emerging technologies applied to the digital trust economy. She works in particular for the EPFL Innovation Park Foundation and is CEO of the Swiss initiative Trust Valley, the center of excellence in digital trust and cybersecurity. She is co-founder and president of the NGO iCON, representing an international community of over 100 digital trust experts. Lennig Pedron represents iCON at the Council of Europe. She has been Data Protection expert for the Swiss Confederation. She provides advice and training to different audiences such as the police, prosecutors or banks. She has been a judge for the 9/12 geopolitical challenge of the GCSP for 4 years and she has spoken at the Forum of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Lennig Pedron is the co-author of the book "The Fundamentals of Cyber Crisis Management" published by Ellipses in June 2022.
Head of Global and Emerging Risks • Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
Dr. Jean-Marc Rickli is the head of global and emerging risks at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also the co-chair of the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium's Emerging Security Challenges Working Groupa and a senior advisor for the Artificial Intelligence Initiative at the Future Society. Prior to these appointments, Dr. Rickli was an assistant professor at the Department of Defence Studies of King’s College London. Dr. Rickli received his PhD in International Relations from Oxford University. His latest book published by Georgetown University is entitled Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-first Century.
COO • Nym Technologies
Alexis Roussel is Chief Operating Officer of Nym Technologies, the start-up solving the internet's privacy crisis. Alexis is also the Co-Founder of Bity.com , a crypto-finance service provider in Switzerland. He holds a Masters in Technology Public Law and has served as an E-Governance Specialist for the United Nations, and was the President of the Pirate Party of Switzerland – aimed at promoting a human-centric and distributed approach of a technological society. He is frequently in the Swiss media discussing privacy and digital rights issues. He is the co-author of the book “Our precious digital integrity” promoting a novel fundamental right to the digital integrity of the human being.
Director of Executive Education • GCSP
Dr Ivan Ureta is the Director of Executive Education at the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP) and serves as the President of the Swiss Business Ethics Network. He also collaborates with several prestigious business schools in Switzerland, Spain, and India. His areas of expertise include international political economy, geo-economics, ethics, and responsible leadership, which he seamlessly integrates into his research, teaching, and executive training programs. Previously, Dr. Ureta led Executive Education at SUPSI and has held academic and research positions at renowned institutions, such as IE Business School, King’s College London, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Exeter, the University of Leeds, Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, the Diplomatic Academy of Malta, and the University of San Marcos and Piura in Peru.As a practitioner, Dr. Ureta has contributed to numerous international projects, working with organizations like the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs, the Spanish and Peruvian Agencies for Cooperation and Development, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and the US Department of State. Dr Ureta holds a PhD in Economic History from the University of Deusto, a PhD in International Relations from King’s College London, and a Diploma in Global Business from Harvard Business School. A native Spanish speaker, he is fluent in English and Italian.