Pierre Morath
Filmmaker, sports historian, journalist and former elite athlete. At the origin of several books on sport and politics, many of the films he has made since becoming a filmmaker have won awards at festivals. In 2016, his documentary Free to Run, a portrait of the pioneers of running who popularized the sport in the United States and created the New York Marathon. This film received an excellent reception from the press.
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Jean-Philippe Rapp
Journalist, producer and host, Jean-Philippe Rapp is the former director of the Festival International du Film Alpin des Diablerets (FIFAD), and the creator of the Festival International Médias Nord-Sud.
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Jim Pulcrano
Passionate about sport, he works as an independent consultant / educator / coach, specializing in entrepreneurship and business creation. He teaches in Moscow, Grenoble and Boston. Jim joined the IMD management team in 1993 after getting his MBA here in 1984. He interviewed Usain Bolt twice at IMD.
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Gigi Alford
Ginous “Gigi” Alford leads the Sport and Human Rights strategy at UNI Global Union’s World Players Association. She also coordinates the Sport & Rights Alliance, a global coalition of leading NGOs, sports organizations, and trade unions.
Previously, Ms. Alford served as Special Advisor for Internet Freedom and Business and Human Rights in the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, where she facilitated the first Sporting Chance Forum. She has also worked at Freedom House, with Baha’i International Community offices in Haifa, Israel, and Washington, D.C., and as a sports reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle and San Diego Union-Tribune. Gigi has a Master’s in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University and is a former Knight Foundation Fellow. Fluent in Spanish and beginner Farsi-speaker, she has a B.A. from Loyola University in New Orleans and serves as board member at-large of the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. She’s relocating to Nyon, Switzerland in January 2018. |
Jon Dunham
Director of the Boston film, cinematographer and film editor. A graduate of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, he has
received many honours as a director. An award-winning filmmaker and 26-time marathon finalist, Jon is an avid sports enthusiast and an accomplished runner and cyclist. He has participated in cross country mountain biking events around the world. The fusion of these two passions is reflected in his films. BOSTON is his 3rd film on the theme of marathons. He has travelled extensively to film on all continents and lives in Italy. |
Laura Hrebec
Duathlete / Swiss marathon runner, European champion in long-distance duathlon in 2015 and winner of the Lausanne marathon in 2017 and 2018 (2h40'28). A rich list of achievements for an athlete/teacher/mother who devotes 10 hours/week to training. Laura tastes competition with triathlon at 26 years old. At 32, she turned to running during the Tour du Pays de Vaud in 2009, which she won. It is there that Pierre Morath spotted her. 1st start on a marathon and 1st victory in Geneva, in 2010. 28th of the European Marathon Championships in Berlin in 2018 with a new personal best of 2h39'03.
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Dominique Chauvelier
French athlete, 4 times French marathon champion (2h12 in Paris in 1993), he obtained his best result at the international level in Split in 1990 at the European Championships where he won the bronze medal. 5th place at the 1989 World Cup. Consultant, pace leader and columnist for various running magazines, he is very present on various races as a sponsor or guest. He continues to run and win marathons (winner of the Molsheim Marathon in 2005 in 2:39:28). He holds 2 French records, over 25 and 30 km.
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Shannon L. Galpin
American Militant , author, adventurer and producer of the film Afghan Cycles. In 2013, she was named National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. Shannon has started mountain bike camps in the United States called "Strength in Numbers" for women aged 20 and 30 who have experienced sexual violence, with the belief that "an army of women can change the world". Shannon was ranked second for two consecutive years in Elevation Outdoors magazine's Resident Badass survey in the humanitarian category.
She grew up in Bismarck, North Dakota. In 2006, she founded Mountain2Mountain. |
Karim Ghezraoui
Since 2003, Karim Ghezraoui has been Coordinator of the Focus Groups Unit, Special Procedures Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. He is responsible for coordinating and supporting the thematic mandates established by the Human Rights Council, including the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants.
He joined OHCHR in 1993 and has worked in various departments to monitor human rights violations, develop and implement various capacity-building projects in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region. He has also carried out numerous field missions to African, Asian and Arab countries. Mr. Ghezraoui holds a master's degree in political science and international relations from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). |
Frédéric Magné
Former French track cyclist. Magné was world champion in keirin in 1995, 1997 and 2000 and in tandem in 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1994, always with Fabrice Colas. He has also competed in four Olympic Games.
In 2010, Frédéric Magné was chosen as a model athlete for cycling at the first Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. During the YOG, the role of the athlete models is to guide the young athletes by staying with them in the village, participating in competitions and in the activity "Discussion with the champions". After having coached the Japanese Federation from 2006 to 2009, he has been Director of the World Cycling Center since April 2009 in Aigle, Switzerland. In 2016, he and Nicolas Geay commented on the track cycling events of the Rio Olympic Games on France Télévisions. During the intervention, Frédéric Magné was replaced by Paul-Henri Rey, manager at the World Cycling Centre. |
Jennifer Fox
Director of "The Tale", Jennifer Fox is a producer, director, director of photography, American filmmaker and writer and president of A Luminous Mind Film Productions. She won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for her first feature-length documentary, Beirut: The Last Home Movie. In 2010, his documentary My Reincarnation premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) where it received the Audience Award. His latest film The Tale premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on HBO in May 2018.
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Homayra Sellier
President of Innocence in Danger. Innocence in Danger (IED) is a global movement for the protection of children from all forms of violence, including sexual violence. Present in many countries, IED is a partner of international associations active in the fight against pedo-criminality. The Association accompanies victims on a daily basis, and is the first and only association to have set up reconstruction programmes for victims.
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Corinne Arhab-Djoungong
Corinne Arhab-Djoungong
is a former Elite skater with the Swiss National Team. She is also a student of the legendary Swiss coach, Peter Grütter. She is a gold medalist of the Swiss Skating Union. As such, she has participated in international competitions to represent her country. She was then hired by Willy Bietak Productions as a professional skater. She learned to skate and has spent her entire career with the Geneva Skaters' Club. She has developed such a bond of belonging that it is with some evidence that she turns to teaching within this Geneva club. Since 2011, she has been teaching at the Skinoire des Vernets in Geneva. She is a Swiss Olympics Coach, a graduate of the Swiss Association of Skating Masters and Expert on Youth and Sport. Her experience and training enable her to develop her own philosophy, which she now passes on to her students. On this basis, it aims to ensure that each skater delivers the best of themselves and expresses the maximum of their potential for the benefit of their well-being, whether they are a top-level competitor, a beginner or a recreational skater. |
Dr med. Per Bo Mahler
Is a sports doctor and also holds a diploma in public health. He is the co-founder of the sports medicine department of the Hôpital de la Tour and a doctor who is a member of the Food and Movement Unit of the Child and Youth Health Service. In this context, he is a doctor in charge of the sports and art classes of the Canton of Geneva where he has been meeting young athletes and their families for 25 years. He has been a team doctor and advisor for many sports and has published about 40 scientific papers on various aspects of sports medicine ranging from performance to monitoring overweight children. Today he divides his time between his public health activities at the Child and Youth Health Service and his clinical activity at the Tour Hospital. Her current concerns are the promotion of physical activity among children as well as children with chronic diseases, the prevention of injuries and overload in children in sport and the limits of prevention in today's society.
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Diane Gerencser
Former ice skater who has competed internationally in Switzerland and Italy. She placed 15th in doubles at the World Championships in 1990 and 11th at the European Championships in 1997.
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Christiane Jolissaint
Swiss tennis player, professional in the 1980s. 5 times Swiss champion in singles. She reached 28th place in the world in singles in 1983 and 26th in women's doubles in 1988, winning six titles in this specialty on the WTA circuit. She played against Billie Jean King Lord of the Fed Cup in 1977. Since 2006, Christiane Jolissaint has been a member of the management committee at Swiss Tennis. Christiane is a coach of the Geneva executives, responsible for the juniors of the Geneva Tennis Association (RGT), of which she is the vice-president. She is head of delegation for Switzerland in Fed Cup, member of the Fed Cup Committee, Junior Committee member at Tennis Europe.
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Caroline Dayer
PhD. from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Geneva. Researcher and trainer, she has extended her career by obtaining a DEUG in human and social sciences at the University of Paris 8 and a certificate from the Ecole doctorale lémanique in gender studies. As an expert in the prevention of violence and discrimination, she works in particular on the processes of socialisation and learning, education and training, gender and equality, the phenomena of insults and (cyber)harassment, the mechanisms of stereotyping and stigmatisation (sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, etc. and their articulation). Author of various scientific books and articles, she also designs educational tools and training mechanisms, while participating in the development and consolidation of public policies.
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Mariana Simionescu
Professional tennis player from the second half of the 1970s. One of the best in Romania and 36th in the world in June 1978, she was engaged to Björn Borg in the 1980 Winbledon final and remained his wife until 1984. Played by Tuva Novotny in the biopic of Borg/McEnroe, she now lives in Monaco.
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Timea Bacsinsky
Number one in women's tennis in Switzerland, reached 9th place in the world in May 2016 and won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016, alongside Martina Hingis. Since 2003, the champion who lives in the Lausanne region has won four singles titles on the WTA circuit.
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Gérard Camy
Professor and film historian, is a member of the French film criticism union and author for Télérama, Cinémaction, Jeune Cinéma, Le Patriote Côté d'Azur, Peeping Tom... Gérard Camy is also president of the Cannes Cinéma association, which is in charge of large screen animations for this city in southern France all year round. He is also the author of the book "50 Films qui ont fait scandale" and co-authored the book "Sport et cinéma" which evokes 1'200 films related to about sixty different sports through numerous interviews.
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