Nicola Forster

As a serial civic entrepreneur, Nicola co-founded the foreign policy think tank foraus, the government innovation lab Staatslabor, the Global Shapers Bern (World Economic Forum) as well as the Global Diplomacy Lab. He is president of Fondation Science et Cité and serves on the Swiss Commission for UNESCO, the board of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. Furthermore, Nicola is a former president of the Swiss Society for the Public Good (Schweizerische Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft) as well as the GLP in the Canton of Zurich. Nicola holds a MLaw from the University of Zurich and has lived in Zurich, Berne, Lausanne, Montpellier, Brussels, Berlin, Saint Petersburg, New York City, Addis Ababa and Abidjan.