Former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Equistone France, he founded and chaired Barclays Private Equity France, an investment fund based in Paris and specialised in midmarket transactions, and co-chaired Barclays Private Equity Europe. He has worked as an investor for over 30 years. Gonzague began...
Michel Bitbol is researcher at CNRS, Paris, France. He received a M.D., a Ph.D. in physics and a ͞Habilitation͟ in philosophy. After a start in scientific research, he turned to philosophy, editing texts by Erwin Schrödinger and formulating a neo-kantian philosophy of quantum mechanics. He...
Benoît (Michel) Billot was born in France in 1933. After primary and secondary school, he studied physics and natural science, and then attended the Ecole Nationale d’Horticulture in Versailles. Afterward he entered the Benedictine order where, after six years’ training, he was ordained a priest. For...
Co-founder and chair of Initiative Mindfulness France, Audrey Berté has led a number of projects aiming at bringing awareness of the benefits of mindfulness, particularly at the British Embassy in Paris where she worked for 7 years and acted to develop a culture of coaching...
Delphine Batho is member of the French parliament for the Deux-Sèvres (French department) since 2007. She has been reelected during the June 2017’s legislative elections. She has been Minister of the Ecology, Sustainable development and Energy from 2012 to 2013. She committed early into volunteer work....
Martine Batchelor was a Buddhist Seon nun in Korea for 10 years. She stopped being a nun and returned to Europe in 1985. She is part of the Teachers Council of Gaia House, a meditation center in England. Since 2000, she lives in France and...
Swiss/Dutch singer and composer Susanne Abbuehl studied jazz voice with Rachel Gould and Jeanne Lee at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, North Indian classical singing with Prabha Atre and composition with Diderik Wagenaar. Susanne Abbuehl has been an ECM Recording Artist since 2001 and has...
Founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School....
One of the most acclaimed dancers of her generation, she became the Paris Opera Ballet's youngest-ever étoile promoted by company’s Artistic Director Rudolf Nureyev. As Principal Guest Artist, she won worldwide renown for her performances with London Royal Ballet, and companies around the world. She forged rich...