Movers and Shakers

Keep track of professionally-related news about appointments, promotions or moves to other institutions within International Geneva.

 

  • WHO sounds alarm at spread of coronavirus in Africa

    Al Jazeera – 20 July 2020

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  • South African hospital thinks outside the box to boost COVID-19 testing

    WHO – 20 July 2020

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  • Two More COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates Show Promise In Peer-Reviewed Clinical Trial Results

    Health Policy Watch – 20 July 2020

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  • «J’ai été hanté par des scénarios catastrophes»

    Interview d’Antoine Flahault, Directeur, Institut de santé globale

    Tribune de Genève – 20 juillet 2020 (accès payant)

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  • 4 things young people want from education in the future

    By Henrietta H. Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF, and Robert E. Moritz, Global Chairman, PwC

    WEF – 20 July 2020

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  • New ‘Versatile Video Coding’ standard to enable next-generation video compression

    ITU – 20 July 2020

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  • Prisons : il faut prendre acte de l’échec des politiques répressives

    Par Ruth Dreifuss, ancienne présidente de la Confédération suisse, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, ancien président de la Pologne, Michel Kazatchkine, ancien directeur du Fonds mondial et Javier Solana, ancien Secrétaire général de l’OTAN

    Global Commission on Drug Policy / Le Monde – 20 juillet 2020

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  • Les Nations Unies célèbrent la première Journée mondiale des échecs en mettant l'accent sur la fraternité

    ONU Info – 20 juillet 2020

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  • CERN visits your home

    “Take part in interactive virtual lectures and discover the world of particles and the scientists exploring it”

    CERN – 16 July 2020

     

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  • Human Rights Council concludes forty-fourth regular session after adopting 23 resolutions

    UN Geneva – 17 July 2020

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  • Coronavirus: WHO reports record single-day global increase in cases

    BBC News – 19 July 2020

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  • Can new leadership fix the World Trade Organization's existential crisis?

    Heidi.news / Geneva Solutions – 17 July 2020

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  • ‘Inequality defines our time’: UN chief delivers hard-hitting Mandela day message

    UN News – 18 July 2020

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  • What’s on this week?

    General Council at WTO; Digital Health Virtual Round Table with the Member States at WHO; Lancement de la norme mondiale sur les Solutions fondées sur la Nature à l'UICN; Ciné ONU online edition "Wake up on Mars"; Human Rights Committee; Commitee against Torture; Webinar on Athlete Activism & Freedom of Expression by Centre for Sport and Human Rights, and more. Check out the calendar!

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  • Secretary-General Appoints Pamela Coke-Hamilton of Jamaica Executive Director, International Trade Centre

    United Nations / Secretary-General – 24 July 2020

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  • Human Rights Committee closes its one hundred and twenty-ninth session, its first ever held online

    UN Geneva – 24 July 2020

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  • The Geneva Trade Platform: Broadening and Diversifying the Conversation about Trade

    Interview of Dmitry Grozoubinski, Executive Director, the Geneva Trade Platform

    The Geneva Observer – 23 July 2020

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  • Geneva steps onto the stage as an urban laboratory for ecological change

    With Panos Mantziaras, Director, Fondation Braillard Architectes

    Heidi.news / Geneva Solutions – 24 July 2020

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  • Inside Geneva podcast: Can Covid-19 'vaccine multilateralism' work?

    With Nora Kronig Romero, Head of International Affairs Division, Federal Office of Public Health, Thomas Cueni, Director General, IFPMA, and Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer, Gavi

    Swissinfo – 26 July 2020 (audio)

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  • La mémoire numérique du CERN prend des couleurs

    "Près de 200 000 photographies en couleurs ont été scannées afin de les préserver et de les rendre plus facilement accessibles"

    CERN – 22 juillet 2020

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  • CERN, SKAO, GÉANT and PRACE to collaborate on high-performance computing

    CERN – 22 July 2020

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