Bertrand Louis is a former Ambassador of Switzerland and Deputy Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, in charge of the Host Country Division. He joined the Swiss Diplomatic Service in 1979, where he held a number of positions, including Deputy Chief of Protocol of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. He was Ambassador of Switzerland to Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, and to the Kingdom of Morocco until September 2015.
Bertrand Louis
President
David Chikvaidze
Vice-President
David Chikvaidze is Chef de Cabinet of the Director General of the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG). He holds a PhD in Political Science. He joined the UN in 1993 and has held a number of positions in New York and Geneva. He is a member of the Board of the Diplomatic Club of Geneva and a founding member of the Association of Georgian nationals in Switzerland.
Cécile Molinier
Vice-Presidente
Cécile Molinier is a former senior official of the United Nations. She joined the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1992, after having occupied a number of positions at the UN Secretariat (Department of Conferences, Department of Administration and Management, Special Assistant to the Director General for Development and International Economic Cooperation). Between 1992 and 2012, she was successively Deputy UNDP Resident Representative in Tunisia, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sao Tome and Principe, Togo and Mauritania, and Director of UNDP’s Office in Geneva.
Olga Hidalgo-Weber
Secretary General
Olga Hidalgo-Weber worked for ten years for UNESCO in Paris. She holds a Ph.D. in general history from the University of Geneva. Her thesis, defended in 2015, examines the relations between Great Britain and ILO during the interwar. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Geneva and has been the Secretary General of FSPI since May, 2017.
Alexandre Biedermann
Alexandre Biedermann studied law at the Universities of Fribourg and Zurich. He then worked as a research associate at the Chair of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg. He is currently writing a doctoral thesis on the law of international state responsibility. He is active in the foreign policy think tank foraus as a member of the Steering Committee, having also served as coordinator of the foraus-Geneva regional group.
Xavier Colin
Xavier Colin, journalist and producer, spent his career with TSR and then RTS as head of the international section, then producer and presenter of the program Géopolitis. He is currently a research associate at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and an ambassador for Terre des hommes.
Jacqueline Coté
Jacqueline Coté was the Director of Public Relations and previously Head of Communications at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva from 2009 to 2021. Prior to that Ms Coté was the Permanent Representative to the UN of the International Chamber of Commerce and also served as Senior Advisor Advocacy & Partnerships to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. She practiced as an international lawyer in Canada and Switzerland and held management positions with multinational companies (SGS and DuPont) in the early part of her career.
Gregory Licker
Gregory Licker holds a PhD in international history and politics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID). He is involved in a number of local and national organizations, including the Foreign Policy Forum (foraus) and the Swiss-UN Association (GSNU). He is currently Secretary-General of the Geneva Diplomatic Club.
Christine Sayegh-Gabus
Christine Sayegh-Gabus is a lawyer in Geneva, member of the FSPI since 1998, former member of the Parliament of the Republic and Canton of Geneva where she chaired the 1996 – 1997 session, President of the Ports-Francs et Entrepôts de Genève from 2005 to 2015, first mediator in the application of the law on the principle of public administrative transparency in the Canton of Geneva and access to documents, member of the federal appeals commissions in matters of taxes and customs duties.
Pablo Demierre
Pablo Demierre is a political scientist with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Lausanne and a Master’s degree in European Studies from the University of Geneva. He has worked for the UNHCR in Geneva and the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe in Lausanne. In 2019, he founded the Swiss Diplomacy Student Association (SDSA). In 2022, during the advocacy competition organized by Leaders for Peace, he won first prize for his project providing solutions for quality education (SDG4).