Paul Agbih

Paul Agbih graduated as a teacher of English and Religion from the University of Benin, Benin city in Nigeria. Since 1985, he has been working with IofC on a voluntary basis either organizing conferences, facilitating, mentoring or giving leadership training in different countries. Paul grew up in a family of traditional dancers and drummers where rhythm and dance are passed on from one generation to another. He won several competitions in his secondary school days, hence he earned the name 'Agbih The Drummer Boy'.

Laurent Wehrli

Laurent Wehrli, member of the PLR.Les Libéraux-Radicaux, was elected Municipal Councilor (executive) for the Commune de Montreux in 2001 and became its mayor in 2011. Member of the legislative assembly (Grand Conseil) of the Canton of Vaud from 2002 to 2015, he joined the Swiss National Council in 2015, where he sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee. He is a former editor-in-chief of a monthly business magazine and he owns a project management company which operates internationally. Born in 1965, he is married and has five children and two grand-children.

Stéphane Rey

Stéphane Rey assumed his position as Deputy Head of the Human Security Division in November 2017. He leads the geographic and thematic peace policy sections. From 2014 until the end of October 2017, he was Deputy Head of Mission at the Swiss embassy in Tehran, which has been representing the interests of the United States in Iran since 1981. Stéphane also led the Political Affairs, Peace & Security Team at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN in New York, where he chaired the Group of Friends of the Protection of Civilians.

Oana Dinea

Oana Dinea is a concert pianist from Romania, currently based in Geneva where she is teaching at the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique de Genève. As a participant in the Caux Peace and Leadership Programme in 2018, she experienced that story sharing, mixing arts and bringing our humanity in a safe space connects us with ourselves. To open herself to the audience and to share her own authentic perspective, she hence initiated the “C L O S E R concert Connection”. “I feel that nothing is more beautiful than the art that we are doing each day in our life.

Rainer Gude

Rainer Gude is currently on Sabbatical and has just finished a 1100 km walk from Switzerland to Rome. From facilitator, moderator, convenor, public speaker and manager, his many roles all start with a belief in the importance of being the change you want to see in the world.

Barbara Smeltzer

Barb will moderate the session, share her vision on the role of ethics in creating digital trust and explain the uniqueness of the Caux Forum Ethical Leadership experience.

Jérôme Bertini EN

Jérôme Bertini comes from Nice (France), where he worked as a painter for a local company for 17 years, and 7 years as a craftsman. He joined the maintenance team in Caux in September 2016 as a painter and became Team Manager and Technical Coordinator in December 2023.

Ulrike Ott Chanu EN

Ulrike Ott Chanu has been part of the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation’s communications team since February 2014. She takes care of and coordinates translations and proofreading, writes and edits content, creates graphic designs and looks after the Foundation's websites and social media accounts. After studying English, French and History she worked as a teacher in Germany until marriage to a Frenchman not only made her change country but also retrain professionally.

Javed Latif

After participating in different Caux conferences (Learning to be a Peacemaker 2011, Living in a Multicultural World 2011 and Impact Initiatives for Change 2014), Javed Latif returned in 2015 to give a presentation, together with co-founder Rudy van der Aar, on their initiative to green up local mosques in the Randstad conurbation and co-create opportunities for collaboration between Muslim/non-Muslim actors on local environmental issues.

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