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  • Laureates
    • Laureate 2024
    • Prize 2024
    • Past laureates
    • Subsequent Nobel Prize laureates
  • Nomination
    • Nomination 2025
  • The award ceremony
    • The award ceremony 2024
    • The award ceremony 2023
    • The award ceremony 2022
    • The award ceremony 2021
    • The award ceremony 2020
    • The award ceremony 2019
    • The award ceremony 2018
    • The award ceremonies of the past
  • Activities
    • Lecture 2025
    • Workshop 2024
    • Lecture 2024
  • Marcel Benoist
    • The founder
    • The legacy
  • Foundation
    • Foundation
    • News
    • Board of Trustees
    • Patronage Committee and Friends
    • Create excellence!
    • Foundation assets
    • Contact

Foundation / Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees

The Foundation Board of Trustees, comprising renowned representatives from the worlds of science, economics and politics, is responsible for implementing the objects of the Foundation. It is responsible for the submission and selection procedure and for setting the strategy and priorities of the Marcel Benoist Foundation.

Chair

Prof. Dr. Didier Queloz

Nobel Laureate, Director of the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life (COPL) of ETH Zurich

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Vice Chair

Prof. Dr. Kilian Stoffel

Representative of the University of Neuchâtel

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Vice Chair

Dr. Martine Clozel

Representative of the world of economics, Executive Vice President Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd

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Assessor

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Galliot

Representative of the University of Geneva

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Members

Dr. Angéline Blanc-Serre

Representative of the French Ambassador in Switzerland

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Prof. Dr. François Bussy

Representative of the University of Lausanne

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Prof. Dr. Martina Caroni, LL.M.

Representative of the University of Lucerne

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Prof. Dr. Lars-Erik Cederman

Representative of the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

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Prof. Dr. Christa Dürscheid

Representative of the University of Zurich

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Prof. Dr. Beatrix Eugster

Representative of the University of St. Gallen

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Prof. Dr. Katharina Fromm

Representative of the University of Freiburg

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Prof. Dr. med. Silke Gillessen Sommer

Representative of the Università della Svizzera italiana

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Prof. Dr. Michael N. Hall

Representative of the University of Basel

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Prof. Dr. Virginia Richter

Representative of the University of Bern

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Prof. Dr. Michaël Unser

Representative of the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

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Executive Secretary

Dr. Aurélia Robert-Tissot

State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI

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Contact

Marcel Benoist Foundation
State Secretariat for Education,
Research and Innovation SERI
Einsteinstrasse 2
CH – 3003 Bern

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