Studies at St Gallen School of Economics, Switzerland; MBA, INSEAD. Independent investor. President: Fondation MAVA, Gland, Switzerland; Fondation Tour du Valat, Arles, France. Vice-Chairman: Roche Holding, Basel, Switzerland. Member of the Board: Genentech, South San Francisco, US; SYSTEMIQ, London, United Kingdom; Member of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, Cologny, Switzerland; as well as of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, San Francisco, US; Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Hoffmann Global Institute in Business and Society at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France; non-profit foundations. Interests: sustainability, business as a force for good, nature, opera, philanthropy
El mundo se enfrenta a una tormenta perfecta de retos complejos e interconectados: crisis ambiental, sanitaria, financiera, humanitaria y de refugiados, por nombrar algunas. En momentos a...
The world is facing a perfect storm of complex, interconnected challenges: environmental, health, financial, humanitarian and refugee crises, to name a few. At times like these, effective...
El presente está lleno de miedo. Guerras, pandemias, calentamiento climático, desastres ecológicos, recesión económica, agitación social y política: No nos faltan motivos para tener miedo...
The present is full of fear. Wars, pandemics, climate warming, ecological disasters, economic downturn, social and political turmoil: We are not short of reasons to be fearful. In privile...
As we enter year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the threat of war looming over Europe, protecting people and the planet is not a nice-to-have, it is a must. A consensus is growi...
The world is in danger of losing 10% or more of its total GDP by the end of the century. This is the top takeaway from a recent stress-test study by Swiss Re that looks at the consequence...
Let’s face it: We have trust issues.
New year, new approaches – it's the perfect time to rethink many things we take for granted. Shakespeare’s advice, “Brevity is the soul of wit”, is telling: humanity will prosper if we ca...
Scientists have little doubt: the destruction of nature makes humanity increasingly vulnerable to disease outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, which has sickened millions, killed hundred...
BÂLE – Pour les scientifiques, le doute n’est plus vraiment permis : la destruction de la nature rend l’humanité de plus en plus vulnérable aux flambées de maladies, comme la pandémie du ...
Cuando era joven, en 1948, mi padre, Luc Hoffmann, bajó de las montañas suizas para instalarse en las marismas de la Camarga y compró la finca de Tour du Valat, con la idea de construir u...
When as a young man in 1948, my father, Luc Hoffmann, came down from the Swiss mountains, settled in the marshes of the Camargue and bought the Tour du Valat estate, imagining a centre de...
Many of the world’s top relief and aid organizations have united around an ambitious goal: ending the HIV-AIDS pandemic. In Africa, more than 25 million people are living with HIV—a clear...
