Foundation board

The FIFDH is a foundation steered by a Board of eight members tasked with determining the Festival's strategy and supervising its future developments.
 

Chairman

Yves Daccord. Executive Chairman of the Edgelands Institut

Deputy-Chairman

Antonella Notari Vischer  Entrepreneur

Secretary

Cyril Troyanov  Lawyer and Partner at Eversheds Sutherland

Treasurer

Jacques de Saussure  Former Senior Partner of the Groupe Pictet

Members

Sanija Ameti  Co-president of the political movement Opération Libero
Dr. Shirin Heidari  Researcher at the Gender Centre of the Geneva Graduate Institute, specialising in sexual and reproductive rights and gender issues
Sébastien Eisinger  Managing Partner of the Groupe Pictet and co-head of the Pictet Asset Management

Leo Kaneman  Founder of the Festival

Dorothée Baumann-Pauly  Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights
Laurence Boisson De Chazournes  University of Geneva
Saskia Ditisheim  Avocats Sans Frontières 
Leslie Haskell  TRIAL International
Michael Ineichen  Amnesty International Switzerland
Nicolas Levrat  Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva
Nathalie Mivelaz Tirabosco  Geneva Academy
François Sergent  Journalist
Sévane Garibian Universities of Geneva and Neuchâtel
Olivier Peter  World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Gerald Staberock World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Eric Tistounet  Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Andrés Zaragosa  International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)