Welcome to the 2025 ALIPH Conference!
16:00 – 17:00
Registration
Venue
Villa Barton - hall
17:00 – 18:00
Opening
Venue
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond (video recording, streaming, interpretation EN-FR)
Welcome note:
Marie-Laure Salles – Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute
Speakers:
Carine Bachmann – Director of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture
Bariza Khiari – Chair of the ALIPH Foundation Board
Krista Pikkat – Director of the Culture and Emergencies Entity of UNESCO
Jasir Sulaiman Alherbish – CEO of the Saudi Heritage Commission
Thomas Gürber – Deputy State Secretary, Head of UN Division of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Sami Kanaan – Vice-President, Department of Culture and Digital Transition, City of Geneva
Thierry Apothéloz – Vice-president of the State Council of the Canton of Geneva
Tatiana Valovaya – Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
18:00 – 18:30
Keynote speech
Speakers:
Metin Arditi – Writer
In discussion with:
Marc-André Renold – Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva, Co-holder of the UNESCO Chair in International Law for the Protection of Cultural Property, and Member of the ALIPH Foundation Board
18:30 – 19:30
Introductory panel
Women, cultural heritage and peace
Venue
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond (video recording, streaming, interpretation EN-FR)
Speakers:
Gayane Umerova – Chairperson of the Art and Culture Development Foundation of Uzbekistan, member of the ALIPH Foundation Board
Bariza Khiari – Chair of the ALIPH Foundation Board
Saia Vergara Jaime – Vice Minister of Heritage, Memories and Cultural Governance of Colombia
Shatha Safi – Director of RIWAQ, Palestine
Vianney Basse – Mediterranean Basin Operations Director at the Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement (IECD)
Moderator:
Melissa Gronlund – The Art Newspaper
19:30 – 21:00
Cocktail reception
Venue
Villa Barton – lobby
08:30 – 09:00
Welcome coffee & Registration
Venue
Villa Barton – lobby
09:00 – 09:45
Discussion
Crisis management and peace building
Venue
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond (video recording, streaming, interpretation EN-FR)
Speakers:
Irina Bokova – Former Director-General of UNESCO, member of the ALIPH International Council
David Bertolotti – Deputy Secretary General of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Gilles Carbonnier – Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Moderator:
Michael Møller – Former UN Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations in Geneva, member of the ALIPH International Council
Cultural heritage and crisis: preparedness and response
09:45 – 11:00
Plenary
From preparation to emergency response
Venue
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond (video recording, streaming, interpretation EN-FR)
Speakers:
General Youssef Haydar – Director of Geographic Affairs of the Lebanese Armed Forces
Sarkis Khoury – Director-General of Antiquities of Lebanon
Joanne Farchackh Bajjali – Founder and Manager of Biladi NGO, Lebanon
Galyna Grygorenko – First Deputy Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine
Krista Pikkat – Director of the Culture and Emergencies Entity, UNESCO
Loretta Hieber Girardet – Chief, Risk Knowledge, Monitoring, and Capacity Development at UNDRR
Martin Jaggi – Chief of Staff Swiss Humanitarian Aid of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Jamie Munn – Executive Director, International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)
Moderator:
Valéry Freland – Executive Director, ALIPH
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
Venue
Villa Barton – lobby
11:30 – 12:30
Workshops
Workshop 1
Data in support of action
Venue
Villa Barton – 1st floor, Room B11
Speakers:
Maria Algora Tussy – Project Manager at ESRI
Philippe Garnier – Architect at CRAterre
Yves Ubelmann – President of ICONEM
Olivier Vandamme – Senior Programme Specialist at UNITAR/UNOSAT
Chandler Williams – PhD researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo
Moderator:
Bastien Varoutsikos – Director of Strategy, ALIPH
Workshop 2
Local relays and access
Venue
Villa Barton – 1st floor, Room B12
Speakers:
Shadia Abdrabo – Senior Curator at the National Museum of Khartoum, Sudan
Mohamed Alhassane – President of Imane-Atarikh, Niger
Mehmet Balci – Co-founder of Fight for Humanity
Nelly Cauliez – Heritage Conservation Advisor of the City of Geneva
Moderator:
Elke Selter – Director of Programs, ALIPH
Workshop 3
Mobilizing funds in a world in crisis
Venue
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond
Speakers:
Natalia Khanjenkova – Managing Director Banking Portfolio at the EBRD
Audrey Guiral-Naepels – Head of the Urban Development, Housing and Planning Division of the Agence Française de Développement
Daniel Hyslop – Head of Partnerships at Finance for Peace
Pascal Nagel – Head of Swiss Onshore at Barclays Private Bank
George Richards – Director of Community Jameel
Moderator:
Laurent Oster – Director of Finance & Operations, ALIPH
12:30 – 14:15
Lunch break
Venue
Villa Barton - lobby
From crisis to peace: the role of cultural heritage
14:15 – 15:30
Plenary
From crisis to peace: the role of cultural heritage
Venue
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond (video recording, streaming, interpretation EN-FR)
Speakers:
Alexandra Xanthaki – United Nations Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights
Elizabeth Decrey Warner – Founder and Former President of Geneva Call, Associate Researcher at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, member of the ALIPH International Council
Abdul-Karim Hashim Mostafa – Permanent Representative of the Republic of Iraq to United Nations in Geneva, member of the ALIPH International Council
Corinne Momal-Vanian – Executive Director of the Kofi Annan Foundation
Luis Monreal – General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC)
Moderator:
Mounir Bouchenaki – Chair ad interim of the ALIPH Scientific Committee
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
Venue
Villa Barton - lobby
16:00 – 17:00
Workshops
Workshop 4
Cultural heritage and refugees
Venue
Villa Barton – 1st floor, Room B11
Speakers:
Heidi Christ – Responsible for the Made51 initiative at UNHCR
Shoshana Clark-Stewart – President of Turquoise Mountain
Esraa Elgadi – Member of the Sudan Urban Development Think-Tank
Catherine-Lune Grayson – Head of Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Mossadeq Khalili – Architectural Historian
Moderator:
Patrick Michel – Senior lecturer UNIL, member of the ALIPH Scientific Committee
Workshop 5
Cultural heritage and peaceful cities
Venue
Villa Barton – 1st floor, Room B12
Speakers:
Francesco Bandarin – Special Advisor to the Director-General of ICCROM, member of the ALIPH International Council
Natalie Neophytou – Member of the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage - Cyprus
Emine Reis – Member of the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage - Cyprus
Shatha Safi – Director of RIWAQ, Palestine
Erin Atkinson – Program Manager at Tetra Tech
Wendi Pedersen – GIS Solutions Advisor at the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)
Moderator:
Vincent Négri – Researcher at Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique (ENS Paris-Saclay)
Workshop 6
Cultural goods trafficking and crises
Venue
Villa Barton – 1st floor, Room B13
Speakers:
Fabienne Baraga – Head of the department specialized in international transfers of cultural property at the Swiss Federal Office of Culture
Béatrice Blandin – Curator in archaeology at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire of Geneva
Xavier Droux – Curator of Egyptian Collections at the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Academic Fellow at the ARCAN Laboratory of the University of Geneva
Murat Yildiz – Trafficking in Cultural Property Lead at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Moderator:
Marc-André Renold – Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva, Co-holder of the UNESCO Chair in International Law for the Protection of Cultural Property, and Member of the ALIPH Foundation Board
17:15 – 17:45
Conclusions
Venue
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond (video recording, streaming, interpretation EN-FR)
Speakers:
Abdullah Alzahrani - General Manager of Archaeology at Saudi Heritage Commission, member of the ALIPH Scientific Committee
Valéry Freland - Executive Director, ALIPH