International Advisory Board
Beatriz Botero Arcilacap
Beatriz Botero Arcila is an Assistant Professor of Law at Sciences Po Law School and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She holds an LLM and a doctorate from Harvard Law School where she defended a dissertation on the governance of smart cities, urban platforms and the data they collect. Beatriz is a law and technology scholar, with a focus on the governance of data and artificial intelligence, and digital surveillance. At Sciences Po she teaches courses on AI and data law, internet law and legal theory. In 2024, her article “Future-Proofing Transparency: Re-Thinking Public Record Governance for the Age of Big Data,” was selected for the Future of Privacy Forum's 14th Annual Privacy Papers Award. Professor Botero Arcila has worked with and advised fintech companies, civil society and international organizations and has lectured in law and the digital information economy in several universities. She is also co-founder of The Edgelands Institute, a pop-up institute incubated at the Berkman Klein Center focused on studying digital surveillance and cities.Her fields of Expertise are Law of the Digital Economy, Privacy law / Global Data Law, Municipal law, Law and Economic Development, Legal Theory and Surveillance Law
Colin C. Bruce Chairperson
Colin Bruce has nearly 40 years of experience in international development and humanitarian affairs, 30 years of which he spent at the World Bank in technical and managerial roles of increasing responsibility such as Director of Strategy and Operations and Senior Advisor in the Office of the World Bank Group President. During these years he worked on issues related to economic growth, poverty reduction, fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV), and global crisis risk mitigation and management. He is an Independent Member and Co-chair of the Board of the Centre for Disaster Protection in London which specializes in disaster risk finance and is on the High-Level Panel of Experts on Closing the Crisis Protection Gap, co-chaired by Sir Mark Lowcock and Ms. Arunma Oteh. In addition, he is the Special Envoy for Humanitarian and Development Affairs of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva on a part time basis. This role includes collaborating on issues related to protracted crises with several multilateral and bilateral development agencies, and with academic institutions in Switzerland like ETH and IMD. Colin and his wife, Dr. Lavern Bentt, a Physician and Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, are the happy and grateful parents of a young adult daughter and son.
Jonathan Normand
Jonathan Normand, with a background in mathematics and algorithmic development, spent 12 years in financial institutions as risk officer and compliance head before co-founding CODETHIC and co-publishing the Synergy-Codethic 26000 impact measurement framework in 2009. In 2013, he contributed to the establishment of the non-profit B Lab in Europe, and in 2017, he founded and became CEO of its Swiss foundation.He serves on various boards to promote and accelerate the transition to an impact-driven economy.B Lab's mission includes providing free tools like the "B Impact Assessment" to measure companies’ social and environmental performance, creating programs to improve business practices, creating educational programs, promoting legal innovation through the Benefit Corporation framework, and delivering B Corp certification to a global community of over 9,500 companies.In 2020, Jonathan created the Swiss Triple Impact program, which includes today over 600 organisations committed to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He also co-founded the Swiss Board for Agenda 2030 alliance, which has trained over 400 leaders since 2022. Most recently, he created and launched the Swiss Impact & Prosperity Initiative, which aims to redefine how we measure national development beyond GDP.Jonathan teaches at various universities and actively contributes to academic research on building an inclusive, circular, and regenerative economy.
Kathryn Hess Bellwald
Kathryn Hess Bellwald received her PhD from MIT in 1989 and held positions at the universities of Stockholm, Nice, and Toronto before moving to the EPFL. Her research focuses on algebraic topology and its applications, primarily in the life sciences, but also in materials science. She has published extensively on topics in pure algebraic topology including homotopy theory, operad theory, and algebraic K-theory.On the applied side, she has elaborated methods based on topological data analysis for high-throughput screening of nanoporous crystalline materials, classification and synthesis of neuron morphologies, and classification of neuronal network dynamics. She has also developed and applied innovative topological approaches to network theory, leading to a powerful, parameter-free mathematical framework relating the activity of a neural network to its underlying structure, both locally and globally.She has won several teaching prizes at EPFL, including the Crédit Suisse teaching prize in 2011 and the Polysphère d'Or in 2013. In 2016 she was elected to Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a distinguished speaker of the European Mathematical Society in 2017. In 2021 she gave an invited Public Lecture at the European Congress of Mathematicians. She was awarded the Chaire de la Vallée Poussin by the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve in 2023 and was named a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in
Michael Lunt
Born in Havana, Cuba in 1959 and lived in Belgium since the age of 6. Michael is the proud father of two children, a daughter of 33 and a son of 30 years old. He settled in Switzerland in 2020.First as a producer and then as an artist manager, Michael worked in the music industry until 2009. Along with his two brothers, he started a family Foundation with the mission to participate in a collective consciousness evolution.The Lunt Foundation supported pioneering evolution by promoting awareness of new sustainable and regenerative initiatives emerging worldwide in agriculture, law, business structures, health, education and communication. Its activities were terminated end of 2024 as Michael wished to run a different path to be at service.Since 2010, Michael grew a strong interest for indigenous wisdom and healing practices. His experiences and learnings are an inspiration for his work and private life.Among other things, Michael enjoys meditation, mountain biking and skiing. He’s also keen of profound friendship and relations.
Nanjira Sambuli
Nanjira Sambuli is a researcher, policy analyst and strategist studying the unfolding, gendered impacts of digitalization/ICT adoption on governance, diplomacy, media, entrepreneurship, and culture, especially in Africa. Nanjira is a nonresident scholar (and previously a fellow) in the Technology and International Affairs Program at The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a Ford Global Fellow. She is a board member at Development Gateway and Digital Impact Alliance, a Diplomacy Moderator at the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA). Nanjira previously led digital equality advocacy efforts at the World Wide Web Foundation, and worked at iHub Nairobi, where she provided strategic guidance for growth of technology innovation research in the East Africa region. She has also served as a board member at The New Humanitarian, co-chair of Transform Health, as a Commissioner on the Lancet & Financial Times Governing Health Futures 2030 Commission, an advisor for the Carnegie Council’s AI and Equality Initiative. as a panel member on the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, and as a deputy on the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Panel for Women’s Economic Empowerment.
Yves Daccord
Yves Daccord is a renowned humanitarian leader, international strategist, and changemaker, and a former journalist and expert in international relations. Born in Zürich, Switzerland, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Geneva and pursued postgraduate training in broadcast journalism, which led to a career at Radio Télévision Suisse in Geneva as a journalist and TV producer. Daccord joined the ICRC in the early 1990s and held various roles in conflict zones before becoming Director-General in 2010 until 2020. Currently, he leads Harvard University’s Edgelands Institute, addressing global challenges through innovative, cross-disciplinary approaches, and the #Principles4Peace initiative to reshape peace processes worldwide. He also chairs the Boards of Our Common Home, which promotes civic solutions to environmental challenges, and the International Human Rights Film Festival of Geneva. Yves has been advising the Center since 2020 on various strategic and partnership issues.
