Anders Hagström is Head of International Affairs in the Office of the President at ETH Zürich. Before taking up his present position in 2008 he was the project manager of ETH World, an ICT development program for education, research and services. Career stations before joining ETH Zürich in 1999 include various positions in the field of continuing professional development and lifelong learning for engineers at Helsinki University of Technology, the International Association for Continuing Engineering Education (IACEE), the University of Cambridge and the European Federation of National Engineering Associations (FEANI).

Olivier Baudoin obtained his PhD degree in 1998 under the supervision of Prof. J.-M. Lehn and Dr. M.-P. Teulade-Fichou at Collège de France, Paris. After a post-doc with K. C. Nicolaou at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla (USA), he was recruited as CNRS researcher at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (France) in 1999, where he became a group leader in 2004. In 2006, he was appointed as Professor at the University of Lyon and since 2015 he has been a Full Professor at the University of Basel (Switzerland). In addition, he has been serving as head of the Chemistry Department since 2021. He received the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2005, the Young Professor Award from the French Chemical Society, Organic Chemistry Division in 2010, and was a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France from 2009-2014. His current research focuses on the development of new methods for the functionalization of C–H bonds and their application to the synthesis of complex functional molecules.

Ms. Noria Mezlef is the Head of the International Relations and Partnerships Office (SRIP) of the University of Geneva since 2019. The SRIP is responsible for the implementation of the international strategy of the UNIGE. As such, it carries out various missions related to the administration of international programmes, the maintenance and conclusion of collaborations with international organisations and partner institutes. Prior to that Ms. Noria Mezlef worked in an international global environment in managing and co-ordinating the administrative, financial and human resources of three Geneva based international non-profit organisations; ensuring the set up and daily operation of their secretariat. Ms. Noria Mezlef has also an extensive field experience in post conflict countries (Palestine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq) mainly with the United Nations. She worked in various areas from capacity building, good governance, elections, reintegration of DPs and refugees and economic development with a common objective: shifting from emergency intervention to sustainable development. Noria holds a Specialized Post Graduate Degree in Political Science with a specialization on developing countries from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

Harald Gall is Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Informatics at the University of Zurich (UZH). Furthermore, he is a professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Informatics at UZH. Prior to that, Harald Gall was an associate professor at the Technical University of Vienna in the Distributed Systems Group (TUV), where he also got his PhD (Dr. techn.) and master’s degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Informatics. His research interests are in software engineering with a focus on software evolution, software architectures, software quality analysis, program families, cloud-based software engineering, IoT, and distributed and mobile software engineering. Harald Gall is probably best known for his work on software evolution analysis and mining software archives. Since 1997 he has worked on devising ways in which mining these repositories can help to better understand software development, to devise predictions about quality attributes, and to exploit this knowledge in software analysis tools such as Evolizer or ChangeDistiller.