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2024

Who Am I? Who Are We?

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University

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2023

Switzerland in a carbon-neutral world (Keynote address in French)

Jean-Marc Jancovici

Engineer, graduate of the École polytechnique and the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris Part-time lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Paris

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2022

Genesis of a film - A dive into the heart of the creative process

Ursula Meier

Director, screenwriter, actress

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2021

Tracing the DNA of the migrations and interbreeding of homo sapiens

Lluis Quintana-Murci

Biologiste, généticien de l’évolution Professeur au Collège de France, titulaire de la Chaire génomique humaine et évolution Directeur de l’Unité génétique évolutive humaine à l’Institut Pasteur

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2020

Rethinking Value Creation for a Post-Covid Recovery that is Inclusive and Sustainable

Mariana Mazzucato

Professor of Economics at University College London

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2019

Why our World has gotten better

Steven Pinker

Psycholinguist, cognitive psychologist

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2018

In Search of Justice – Nations and international law.

Carla Del Ponte

Swiss Prosecutor and Diplomat, Swiss Ambassador to Argentina until 2011

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2017

Can artificial intelligence be put to work for humanity?

Jacques Attali

Economist, business leader, senior civil servant, writer, conductor

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2016

What can we learn from traditional societies?

Jared Diamond

Geographer, evolutionary biologist, physiologist, historian, ecologist, and author

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2015

Africa Can Feed the World. What will it take?

Ruth K. Oniang’o

Professor of food science and nutrition, former Member of Parliament in Kenya

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2014

What Money Can’t Buy. The Moral Limits of Markets.

Michael Sandel

Political philosopher, professor at Harvard University

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2013

The Brave New World of the «New Media»: How Social Media Has Revolutionized the Communications Landscape

Ariana Huffington

Author, syndicated columnist, businesswoman, politician, and co-founder of “The Huffington Post”

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2012

Researchers, decision-makers, citizens: how can we build tomorrow's knowledge society together?

Claudie Haigneré

Physician, holder of a PhD in neuroscience, astronaut, former minister, ambassador and advisor to the director of the European Space Agency

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2011

European Identities

Francis Fukuyama

Political scientist, political economist, international relations scholar and resident Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University

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2010

Power and Finance: Historical insights into the political consequences of financial crises

Niall Ferguson

Historian

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2009

Architecture: concepts and contexts today

Bernard Tschumi

Architect, Professor emeritus at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)

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2008

The Global Economic Outlook for Europe and the US

Joseph Stiglitz

Economist, professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, co-laureate of the Nobel Prize in economics (2001)

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2007

The crucial role of universities in the 21st century

Federico Mayor Zaragosa

Politician, scientist, diplomat, poet

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2006

Information, knowledge and wisdom

Ismaïl Serageldin

Economist

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2005

CERN - The role of fundamental science in a competitive world

Robert Aymar

Physicist

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2004

Moving towards a Swiss education and research hub in 2008

Charles Kleiber

Architect, Former Undersecretary of State for Education and Research of the Swiss Confederation

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2003

The Future of European Universities: European Masters and Erasmus Mundus

Viviane Reding

Journalist, analyst, international relations theorist, politician

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2003

The role of small states in a larger Europe

José Manuel Durão Barroso

Lawyer, politician, President of the European Commission from 2004 to 2014

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2002

The Paradox of American Power

Joseph Nye

Analyst, international relations theorist, professor emeritus at Harvard University

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2001

Research and European universities

Claude Allègre

Geochemist, politician

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2000

On course for a European federative Union

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing († 2.12.2020)

Statesman, President of the French Republic from 1974 to 1981

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1999

Radioactivity, an inexhaustible source of progress, danger and superstition.

Georges Charpak ( † 20.9.2010)

Physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics

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1998

Globalization: fact or fancy?

Baron Anthony Giddens

Sociologist, Professor at Cambridge University

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1997

The European Union between unity and diversity

Jacques Delors († 27.12.2023)

Member of Parliament, Minister, President of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995

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1996

New views on security in Europe

Pierre Joxe

Lawyer, Minister, First President of the Cour des Comptes (Court of Auditors), Member of the Conseil Constitutionnel (Constitutional Council)

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1995

Why Excellence Matters

Lord Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron of Clare Market († 17.6.2009)

Sociologist, philosopher, political scientist, politician, member of parliament, minister, European Commissioner

@ University of Pittsburgh

1994

Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy after 100 Years, and its Future

Adolf Grünbaum († 15.11.2018)

Philosopher of science, tenured professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh

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