17:50 - 18:20
30 minutes

Fireside Chat: Finance's New Normal Under the Trump Administration

Speakers

 Lennig Pedron
Lennig Pedron

CEO • Trust Valley

Lennig Pedron a une expertise en cybersécurité et technologies émergentes appliquée à l’économie de confiance numérique. Elle travaille notamment pour la Fondation EPFL Innovation Park et est CEO de l’initiative suisse Trust Valley, le pôle d’excellence lémanique dans la confiance numérique et la cybersécurité. Elle est cofondatrice et présidente de l’ONG iCON, représentant une communauté internationale de plus de 100 experts en confiance numérique. Lennig Pedron représente iCON au Conseil de l’Europe. Elle a été experte en matière de protection des données pour la Confédération suisse. Elle fournit conseils et formations à différents publics comme la police, des procureurs ou des banques. Elle est juge depuis 4 ans du challenge de géopolitique 9/12 du GCSP et est intervenue au forum du Sommet mondial sur la société de l’in- formation (SMSI). Lennig Pedron est la co-auteure du livre «Les Fondamentaux de la gestion de crise cyber» sorti aux éditions Ellipses en juin 2022.

 Jean-Marc Rickli
Jean-Marc Rickli

Responsable des risques mondiaux et émergents • Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)

Le Dr Jean-Marc Rickli est le responsable des risques mondiaux et émergents au Centre de politique de sécurité de Genève (GCSP) à Genève, en Suisse. Il est également le co-président du Groupe de travail sur les défis émergents en matière de sécurité du Consortium Partenariat pour la Paix de l'OTAN et conseiller principal de l'Initiative sur l'intelligence artificielle à la Future Society. Avant ces nominations, le Dr Rickli était professeur adjoint au Département des études de défense du King's College de Londres. Le Dr Rickli a obtenu son doctorat en relations internationales à l'Université d'Oxford. Son dernier livre, publié par l'Université de Georgetown, s'intitule "Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-first Century" (La Guerre par procuration : la transformation de la guerre au XXIe siècle).

 Alexis  Roussel
Alexis Roussel

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.

 Ivan Ureta
Ivan Ureta

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.