Bruno Giussani

Why you should listen

A writer and commentator, Bruno Giussani is the global curator of TED and the coorganizer and lead curator of TED's climate initiative, Countdown. He joined TED in 2005, and produced the first TEDGlobal conference that year in Oxford. For 12 years, he was the organization's European director and member of its senior team, curating and cohosting a number of events, curating hundreds of talks (including, famously, two by His Holiness Pope Francis) and participating in the definition and implementation of TED's international strategy.From 2017 to 2022, Giussani was the chairman of the annual Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), the world's leading event of its kind, and an advisor to Science Gallery Venice and to other idea-sharing initiatives. Prior to joining TED, Giussani was head of online strategy at the World Economic Forum, a senior adviser to the Atlantic Council, a JS Knight Fellow at Stanford University, and the cofounder of three internet companies.Giussani's writings have been published in print and online outlets in Switzerland (where he lives) and across the world, including the New York Times (for which he wrote the Eurobytes column from 1996 to 2000). He has also authored and coauthored several books. In January 2016 he received the "SwissAward/Person of the year" prize.