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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...
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
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...