Annual Conference

Christina Bornatici completed her studies in international relations and socioeconomics at the University of Geneva. Since 2015, she is a researcher at FORS - the Swiss Center of Expertise in Social Sciences, where she is involved in the development of European research infrastuctures. Since 2018, she is also a PhD candidate at the University of Lausanne. Her research interests lie in the field of gender equality, where she mainly focuses on attitudes towards gender equality and couples’ work-family organisation. In 2022, she published an comprehensive report on the situation of young women in Switzerland under the mandate of the Federal Commission for Women’s Issues.

Giulia is the Director of the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, a platform supported by WBCSD and the WEF, bringing together public and private stakeholders to identify opportunities and barriers to investment into carbon credits in new, and existing markets, to increase financing for natural climate solutions.

Previously Giulia served as Deputy Director of the Global Business and Biodiversity Programme at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). During her tenure at IUCN, she headed projects in renewable energy, tourism, sport, agri-food, apparel, mining, infrastructure, and oil and gas sectors. She also convened numerous multistakeholder processes, such as the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative, bringing together global companies in the aluminium value chain and civil society organizations, that led to the first global aluminium sustainability standard. She designed the Cerrado das Aguas Consortio, uniting Nespresso and other global coffee companies with local stakeholders to collectively tackle land restoration; and coordinated the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, enabling scientists to provide independent advice to oil and gas representatives and NGOs.

Ayant grandi à Bruxelles et vivant en Suisse depuis plus de 13 ans, Jenny Ebermann est une Leader, Coach et Formatrice internationale, innovatrice et visionnaire. Ayant un bagage en sport, économie et management, Jenny travaille présentement en tant que Directrice Exécutive pour la Suisse d’une ONG mondialement reconnue.
Avec plus de 17 années de gestion efficace d’équipes multiculturelles, diverses et virtuelles, elle possède une expertise variée au sein de différentes entreprises et organisations, notamment dans le secteur public, en Organisations Internationales, ONGs et grandes multinationales (B2B/ B2C) dans différents pays et continents.
En tant qu’ancien Membre du Conseil d’Administration de l’Association Européenne des Approches basées sur la Pleine Conscience (www.eamba.net) et en tant que Membre active de l’Association MBSR en Suisse (https://www.mindfulness.swiss), Jenny est passionnée en ce qui a trait à la pleine conscience, la communication et le leadership au niveau local et international.

Monika was born and grew up in London and read Law at the University of Birmingham. She has worked in search and recruitment within the education sector since 2007, leading the international and independent schools consultancy division at The Times Educational Supplement (now TES Global) and subsequently for independent search firms and directly with schools. This has included working with individual schools, Boards and ‘not for profit’ organisations as well as large multinational school groups, investors, education providers and school brand international expansion & start up projects; creating whole school HR and recruitment plans and appointing to executive & senior support function roles. As such, her network covers both the educationalist and commercial & operational side of school leadership.

Alongside her work in search, Monika specialises in delivering training on best practice recruitment, recruitment strategy & retention and process management.

Valerie Hannon is a global thought leader, inspiring systems to re-think what ‘success’ will mean in the C 21st, and the implications for education. The co-founder of both Innovation Unit and of the Global Education Leaders Partnership, Valerie is a radical voice for change, whilst grounded in a deep understanding of how education systems currently work.
After a distinguished career within education, Valerie now works independently to support change programs across the world. She has advised governments and worked with systems and schools on every continent, working with some of the most challenged as well as the leaders in education innovation.

Sean Lionadh is an award-winning poet, filmmaker and speaker from Glasgow, Scotland.

His short film, Time for Love, which explores the experience of modern day homophobia was seen by more than 16 million people online when it was released by BBC.

When visiting schools, Sean uses his work as a starting point for discussions on empathy, queer identity and experience, and allyship.

Jessica Minahan, MEd, BCBA, is a licensed and board-certified behavior analyst, special educator, as well as a consultant to schools internationally (www.jessicaminahan.com). Jessica has over seventeen years of experience supporting students who exhibit challenging behavior in urban public-school systems. 

She is the co-author of The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students (Harvard Education Press, 2012) and author of The Behavior Code Companion: Strategies, Tools, and Interventions for Supporting Students with Anxiety-Related or Oppositional Behaviors (Harvard Education Press, 2014).

Jenny Mosley is a national and international educational consultant, author and publisher. Based in the UK, with 45 years of experience in schools.  Jenny has developed her ‘Golden Model’ approach for Early Years and Primary, interweaving rafts of key ideas promoting staff and pupil wellbeing, listening systems, positive behaviour, school values and calmer lunchtimes and playtimes. With the aim of creating safe learning communities where all children and adults feel valued, respected and listened to, Jenny is in great demand for her inspiring talks and motivational workshops. Jenny’s key areas of expertise include staffrooms, classrooms, dining halls and playgrounds.  All of Jenny’s systems promote wellbeing in schools. Her ‘Five Wells for Wellbeing’ were adopted by the National College for School Leadership, UK.

Alice Richard is a sustainability catalyst, designing and leading inspiring learning experiences that help bring sustainability and meaningful content to life. As a former innovation consultant, United Nations staff member, and product designer, Alice’s career has been built around products and collaborations that drive positive change. Today, with her sustainability training company Co-CREATE ImpACT, she provides services to a wide range of educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations. She runs Sustainable Development Goal training for the United Nations, designs game-based approaches to energy sustainability for the European Commission and gets big businesses such as Oracle to ‘think out of the box’.

She has worked with a number of international schools in Switzerland including Le Rosey and Ecolint, as well as higher education institutions such University of St Gallen and Boston University, nurturing students changemaking skills and using play to explore the consequences of our actions.

Alice brings together genuine passion for making the world a better place with her 20+ years of experience and expertise to advance sustainability on a daily basis with inclusive, energising and thought-provoking training.

(Organisation suisse d'aide aux réfugiés (OSAR))

Having completed a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Literature and a Master’s degree in German Literature, I worked as a middle school teacher and as an adult educator for German. At the same time, I was finalizing my Federal Trainer Diploma. I then worked a couple of years as a social worker. Nevertheless, my predilection area being migration and integration, I started looking for an opening in the vast world of NGOs.

Luckily for me, I didn’t have to look for a long time. I’ve started working for the Swiss Refugee Council in January 2021 as a training co-manager in French-speaking Switzerland.

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