EA Summit: Geneva 2026

Speakers

The people you'll hear from

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  Melissa Parke

  Executive Director, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

  The Hon. Melissa Parke was appointed as the Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on 1 September 2023. Ms Parke is a former Australian Minister for International Development, and former Australian federal Member of Parliament (2007 to 2016). Prior to being elected to the Australian Parliament, Ms Parke worked as an international lawyer with the United Nations in Kosovo, Gaza, New York and Lebanon (1999 to 2007). Ms Parke also served as a member of the UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen, mandated by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during the conflict in Yemen (2017–2021).

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  Léo Le Ster

  Principal Strategist, The Humane League

  Léo Le Ster is the Principal Strategist for The Humane League, advising and training 80 member organisations of the Open Wing Alliance in 70 countries on their corporate campaigns, targeting major global food corporations to abolish extreme confinement and cruel practices in factory farming.

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  Sigrid De Lepeleire

  Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager, Lafiya

  Sigrid De Lepeleire works as Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager at Lafiya, which brings family planning counselling and contraceptive services to women in remote communities in Nigeria through a network of trained government health workers. Her work focuses on generating and using evidence to understand how the programme performs, where it can improve, and how it can make women with an unmet need for family planning more visible in national health data. Before joining Lafiya, she spent more than six years with the Belgian Red Cross, managing health and humanitarian programmes across Sub-Saharan Africa. Effective altruism led her to focus increasingly on monitoring and evaluation, and on using evidence to understand what actually makes a difference.

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  Loic Watine

  Head of EA Funds, Centre for Effective Altruism

  Loic works at the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), where he leads EA Funds, a portfolio of cause-area philanthropic funds that lets individual donors pool their giving and rely on subject-matter experts to identify and fund highly cost-effective projects. Current funds cover global health and development, risks from transformative AI, animal welfare, and EA community building. Prior to joining CEA, he spent 15 years at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), a research and policy organization in international development, most recently as its Chief Research and Policy Officer, overseeing IPA's Sector Programs, Policy team, and the Right-Fit Evidence Unit, a monitoring and evaluation advisory unit he founded.

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  Chiara Gerosa

  Executive Director, Talos Network

  Chiara Gerosa is Executive Director of Talos Network, which develops the people Europe needs to shape a resilient future with advanced AI. She joined Talos in 2024 as Fellowship Lead, training policymakers to govern frontier AI, and has led the organisation since 2025. Before that, she advised the UK government on online security and AI policy. She has also researched AI and security, and worked to strengthen collaboration between academia and policymakers in the UN system.

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  Hannah Betts

  AI Governance Programme Lead, Talos Network

  Hannah Betts is an AI Governance Programme Lead at Talos Network, where she co-leads the Policy Leaders Programme, a fellowship for experienced professionals entering European AI governance. Her career focuses on supporting institutions, governments and civil society to govern advanced AI. She previously led special projects and managed business operations at FAR.AI. Hannah holds a Master of Science from Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington, examining challenges faced by journalists covering AI in New Zealand.

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  Romain Barbe

  Co-founder and Director, Mieux Donner

  Romain Barbe co-founded Mieux Donner on the conviction that we can have far greater impact once we have the right information. He helps foundations, companies and individuals support effective organisations, using evidence and prioritisation to decide where the money goes. An INSA engineering graduate, he has worked in humanitarian aid in India, served as a French Navy officer, and built sustainable solutions at an electric bicycle startup. He pledged 10% of his income in 2023, translated 80,000 Hours' career guide into French in 2024, and founded Mieux Donner through the Charity Entrepreneurship incubator. He has spoken on effective giving before the French National Assembly.

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  Naoki Peter

  President, Sentience

  Naoki Peter is President of Sentience, a Swiss nonprofit working to improve the lives of animals through political and societal change. He has been active in the effective altruism community since 2015, in roles including volunteer, board member and IT contractor. Alongside his nonprofit work, Naoki teaches computer science at a high school in Zurich and previously worked as a software engineer.

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  Antonin Broi

  Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy, University of Geneva

  Antonin Broi is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at the University of Geneva. He has been active in the effective altruism movement for over ten years, including two years as President of EA France, where he continues to serve on the board. His research, grounded in ethics, focuses on the philosophical foundations of EA, well-being, and philanthropy.

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  Konrad Gerosa

  Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Simon Institute for Longterm Governance

  Konrad Gerosa (formerly Seifert) is Chief Strategy Officer of the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance, which he co-founded in 2021. The Institute supports policymakers, diplomats and technical experts in fostering international cooperation on governing transformative technologies, particularly frontier AI. Konrad oversees its strategy, people and special projects. A social entrepreneur, he has built two nonprofits after leaving an undergraduate degree in international relations, and has designed and led dozens of retreats and workshops on topics from probabilistic thinking to group decision-making and social impact. He also co-runs Fractal Geneva.

Organisations

Organisations taking part

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