Maison de la paix, La Fab
Open your mind and career to the private sector. Attend presentations from multinationals, consulting firms, law firms, and other companies.
Private Sector Career Expo is a new one-day event hosted at La Maison de la Paix at the Institute's innovation lab, La Fab. It is organised by the Institute's Career Services in partnership with companies and corporations based around Geneva.
The event is exclusive to students and alumni of the Geneva Graduate Institute and the Geneva Academy.
Are you considering a career in the private sector? Even if you came to Geneva aiming to work for the United Nations, NGOs, government, or in academia, we invite you to explore the private sector.
The Private Sector Career Expo brings to campus 9 global and Swiss companies working in technology, management consulting, risk management, legal, impact investing, and consumer goods, including Aon, Dalberg, Deloitte, Impact Hub, Microsoft, Peter & Moreau, Procter & Gamble, PwC, and Tameo Impact Fund Solutions.
It's an exciting opportunity to explore future employers, ask questions, and network.
The event format will be presentations by each employer every hour, followed by networking over coffee in Lab Fab after each presentation.
FULL SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS:
Room S-12
Speaker:
Budhi Pangestu, Senior Consultant, International Development
PwC is a global professional services and accounting firm. PwC’s International Development team helps actors from across the international development spectrum to design transparent, effective and efficient systems and processes. They offer financial and programmatic monitoring services and ongoing implementation support, grant management services, risk management workshops, cost-benefit analysis, strategy development, impact evaluation, and facilitation of partnerships and governance arrangements.
Room S-11
Speaker:
Felix Stähli, Co-founder and CEO (IHEID alumus)
Impact Hub Geneva is a Swiss innovation lab that facilitates connection in a creative space, supports entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs projects, advises and guides companies from various sectors, to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs.
Room S-12
Speakers:
Loris Andrea Amorelli, Risk Management and Insurance Associate Advisor
Mickaël Perrin, Risk Management and Insurance Associate Advisor
Aon is a global professional services firm that helps governments, businesses, and organisations manage risk, shape better decisions, and build resilience in an increasingly uncertain world.
Room S-11
Speakers:
Céline Moreau, Partner (IHEID aluma)
Emma Lidén, Junior Partner
Ruza Lukic, Head of Strategy and Development
Peter & Moreau is a Geneva-based law firm specializing in strategic cases at the national and international levels, with particular expertise in international civil service, labour, criminal, and migration law, and a strong commitment to the defense of human rights.
Room S-12
Speaker:
Dr Erica Moret, Director, United Nations & International Organisations, Geneva
Microsoft is a global technology company. Microsoft’s United Nations and International Organisations (UNIO) team facilitates cooperation between Microsoft and the Geneva-based international organizations.
Room S-11
Speaker:
Julie Simon, Talent Acquisition Manager
Procter & Gamble (P&G) is a multinational consumer goods company that produces and markets a wide range of household and personal care products, including well-known brands like Tide, Pampers, Crest, and others. They operate in 180 countries and their global workforce includes 150 nationalities.
Room S-12
Speakers:
Julius Hill, Managing Partner, EMEA International Affairs & Development sector Lead
David Derrier, Director, International Affairs & Development
Eugenia Borneto, Manager & Chief of Staff, International Affairs & Development (IHEID alumna)
Deloitte is one of the largest professional services networks in the world, offering consulting, audit, tax, risk advisory, and financial advisory services to help organisations solve complex business challenges. It serves clients across various industries with a focus on quality, expertise, and innovation.
Deloitte’s International Affairs & Development practice works with a wide range of clients, from UN agencies, international organisations and NGOs to foreign ministries and foundations and more. They offer services in humanitarian supply chain, climate and sustainability, resource mobilisation and fundraising, impact measurement and impact investing, AI, data, and analytics, and safety and security.
Room S-11
Speakers:
Bakoro Kagnassi, Impact Analyst
Samuel Davies, Marketing Manager
Based in Switzerland, Tameo provides independent, data-driven solutions for impact investing. They specialise in impact fund data, research and reporting, verification and benchmarking, and advisory services that deliver high-quality market intelligence and support for impact management. Tameo empowers impact fund managers, catalytic investors and institutional investors with reliable insights and solutions to optimize their strategies and drive impact capital flows. With proprietary datasets and practitioner expertise, Tameo is recognised as a centre of excellence in private asset impact investing.
Room S-11
Speakers:
Felina Lottner, Consultant
Liru Wang, Consultant
Dalberg is a global consulting group working to build a more inclusive & sustainable world where all people, everywhere, can reach their fullest potential. They have offices in 25 countries.
How to participate:
All private sector entities are eligible to participate, from local businesses to multinational corporations. Contact the Career Services team at career@graduateinstitute.ch to reserve your company's participation. Act soon! Spaces are limited.
About our students:
The approximately one thousand Master and PhD students of the Geneva Graduate Institute represent over 100 nationalities: approximately 10% are Swiss, 30% are from Europe, and 60% are from elsewhere around the world.
They undertake degrees in International Relations and Political Science, International Economics, International History and Politics, International Law, and Anthropology and Sociology. Additionally, our interdisciplinary Master's program in International and Development Studies has specialisations in Conflict, Peace and Security; Environment and Sustainability, Gender; Race and Diversity; Human Rights and Humanitarianism; Mobilities, Migrations and Boundaries; Sustainable Trade and Finance; and Global Health.
Event format:
This is the 1st annual edition of the Private Sector Career Expo, but it's not our first large career event. We also host an annual NGO career fair every autumn semester, and an annual International Organisations career fair every spring semester. See below key figures and photos from recent past events.
Photos from similar private sector career presentations at the Institute:
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