Festival Staff

Assistant : Milena Michoud

Head of Partnerships and Public Relations : Laura Longobardi

Forum Editorial Producer : Caroline Abu Sa’da
Deputy Forum Editorial Producer : Beata Godenzi

Forum editorial deputy in charge of organisation : Celia Burnand

Head of Documentary Programming : Daphné Rozat
Head of Fiction Programming : Jasmin Basic
Off-site Programming : Maryke Oosterhoff
Off-site Programming Assistant : Juliette Papaloïzos
Head of Educational Programming : Dominique Hartmann
Educational Programming Assistant : Sara Kasme
Coordinator of Prison & Hospital programing : Claudia Dessolis
Programming Consultants : Xavier Colin, Jacqueline Coté, Juan José Lozano, Delly Shirazi, Sara Cereghetti, Anne Pictet

Head of Communication : Florence Lacroix Bernier
Media Development Manager : Sara Dominguez
Media Relations : Luisa Ballin
Digital & Promotion Manager : Stéphane Decrey
Promotion Assistant : Iris Petit
Graphic Design & Editorial Manager : Marie Marcon
Design : www.superposition.info
Traductions : Marguerite Davenport, Georges Wyrsch
Photographers : Miguel Bueno, Marie de Lutz

Ticketing & Partners : Marine Merenda
Ticketing & Partners Assistant : Mélissa Catoquessa

Volunteers and Events : Thierry Bouscayrol
Volunteers and Events Assistant : Lucie Emch

Logistics Manager : Yves Herren
General Technics Manager : Adrien Boulanger

Projection and video technics : Fabien Jupille

Logistics: Rémi Scotto Di Carlo

Captations & Livestream : Louis Jean
Subtitles : Sublimage
In Charge of Interpreters : Anne Woelfli

FIFDH Foundation Council

Chairman : Bruno Giussani, European director of TED conferences
Vice-Chairewoman : Marie Heuzé, vice-president of the Cartooning For Peace Foundation
Secretary : Cyril Troyanov, lawyer and senior partner at the Altenburger Firm LTD legal+tax

Treasurer : Jacques de Saussure, former senior partner of the Groupe Pictet
Members: Yves Daccord, director-general of the International Commitee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Antonella Notari Vischer, entrepreneur, former ICRC delegate and director of Womanity Foundation, Aude Py, cinema screenwriter

Honorary President

Leo Kaneman, founder of the FIFDH

Patrons

Barbara Hendricks, Singer, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador 

Ruth Dreifuss, Former President of the Swiss Confederation 

Abigail Disney, Filmmaker and activist 
Louise Arbour, Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Robert Badinter, Lawyer, former president of the French Constitutional Court, former French Minister of Justice
William Hurt, Actor
Ken Loach, Film Director
The late Sergio Vieira De Mello, first Patron of the Festival, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was the first patron of the Festival. 

FIFDH AMBASSADOR CERCLE

Scientific Council

Andrea Kaufmann, Doctors without Borders (MSF)
Saskia Ditisheim, Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) Suisse
Christiane Dubois, Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) Suisse
Sévane Garibian, University of Geneva
Michael Ineichen, International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
Nicolas Levrat, Global Studies Institute (GSI), Université de Genève
Peter Splinter, Human Rights Consultant
Gerald Staberock, Organisation Mondiale contre la Torture (OMCT)
Carole Vann, Independant Journalist
Daniel Warner, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)