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The Geneva Internet Platform (GIP) was inaugurated 8 April, with an engaging and dynamic discussion on global digital politics. The inauguration event also included an Internet Governance (IG) Bazaar, featuring, among other things, the first Bitcoin ATM. The GIP is an initiative of the Swiss authorities operated by DiploFoundation. Jovan Kurbalija, Director of the DiploFoundation tells us more about it.
May 2014
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Summer interview 2014 – Arancha González, Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC)
Arancha González is the Executive Director of the Geneva-based International Trade Centre (ITC). In this interview, she tells us about her focus during the summer, holiday plans and her recommendations for summer reading, music and activities in the Geneva region.
July 2014
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Jovan Kurbalija is the Director of the DiploFoundation and the Head of the Geneva Internet Platform (GIP). Here, he tells us about his work over the summer months, his holiday plans as well as his favourite books, music and places to visit in the Geneva area this summer.
July 2014
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Seth Berkley is the CEO of the Geneva-based GAVI Alliance, committed to saving children's lives and protecting people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries. In this interview, he tells us about his work over the summer months, his holiday plans as well as his favourite books, music and places to visit in the Geneva area this summer.
July 2014
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Cédric Dupont teaches international relations at the Graduate Institute Geneva, where he is also in charge of executive education programmes. Here, he tells us about his work over the summer months, his holiday plans as well as his favourite books, music and places to visit in the Geneva area this summer.
August 2014
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Tarek Kamel is the Senior Advisor to ICANN's President for Government Engagement. He also heads ICANN's newly created office in Geneva. In this interview, he tells us about the role of ICANN's office in Geneva and his focus during the summer.
August 2014
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Martin Chungong is the new Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). In this interview, he tells us about his work over the summer months, his holiday plans as well as his favourite books, music and places to visit in the Geneva area this summer.
August 2014
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September 2014
Christian Friis Bach, the newly appointed Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), welcomed us in his office at the Palais des Nations to discuss about his vision for the organization and share his thoughts on International Geneva.
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Spend a week with Scott Weber, the Director-General of Interpeace, and discover their work, impact, priorities and the challenges they are facing to build peace around the globe.
23 September 2014
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February 2015
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March 2015
In this interview, Guy Ryder, ILO's Director-General tells us about the ILO, its work and impact, and the challenges it will have to address in the coming years and decades.
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© Luca Fascini
The Perception Change project is a collective effort to show the relevance and impact of the work of Geneva-based International Organizations. Through different projects, it informs about the work done collectively in Geneva to further peace, rights, and well-being.
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International Geneva obliging, Geneva airport is one of the few airports in the world to have a Protocol Service.
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After a career in bilateral diplomacy and frontline missions as well as multilateral diplomacy in Brussels, Ambassador Julian Braithwaite, freshly appointed Head of the UK Mission to the UN and other international organisations, is now settling in Geneva. He can count on an extensive experience and will lead a team of 50. During the induction phase, traveling to West Africa, he could see by himself how Geneva-based organisations were working in the field to fight against the Ebola outbreak.
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July 2015
What fragrance is associated in your mind with summer holidays?
The scent of pine and jacaranda.
Your first holiday memories?
Transatlantic ships in Genova harbour; and the emotion when they leave.
Your best holiday memories?
Beach family holidays in Italy. Notably the ride from the station to the hotel in a Fiat 500, three suitcases on the roof and four people squeezed inside, driver not included.
Your worst holiday memories?
Being sea sick.
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Matt Pollard is Senior Legal Adviser, UN Representative, Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers - International Commission of Jurists
July 2015
What fragrance is associated in your mind with summer holidays?
I am originally from the west coast of Canada, so for me the scent of summer is the sweet smell of pine trees baking in the hot sun, blended with the salty ocean breeze. I won't get back to Canada this summer but will be enjoying forest scents around Geneva!
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What fragrance is associated in your mind with summer holidays?
The smell of the oceans – hard to describe since water has no odour. But for me there is a distinct and soothing aroma. It must be the mixture of seaweed and sea life carried into the beach by the waves that have skimmed off bits and pieces and churned them into a fresh fragrance.
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October 2015
For the last 30 years, the Right Livelihood Award has been given to people who have demonstrated « outstanding vision and work on behalf of our planet and its people ».
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On 29 November 2015 at the Victoria Hall, Antoine Marguier will conduct the United Nations Orchestra and the invited cellist Camille Thomas. The concert will focus on Romantic music and composers Piotr Illitch Tchaïkovsky and Robert Schumann. Interview with this conductor who is also co-founder and art director at the United Nations Orchestra.