During her experiences in the finance sector, Ms. Foppa matured the believe that Impact Investing approach is very well suited to drive, manage and scale sustainable positive impact while generating economic value. For many years, philanthropy and investing have been thought of as separate discipli...
The Sumatra Wildlife Veterinary Training Course has started in 2018 to train each year for six years up to 20 students of the final year (5th) of their studies in veterinary medicine to work with endangered wildlife species. The course takes place at the Syiah Kuala University Banda Aceh, Sumatra, ...
Our Fellow Member, Cory Edwards, will update us on the last achievements and activities of the Rotary Foundation and will increase our awarness on the incomig Polio Day in October.
Our fellow Helena Pleinert and her business partner Pelin Istanbullu designed a returner program for people returning to the workforce (especially women after a family break). The program can match with the needs of organizations that have tasks on a project basis for (well qualified) volunteers wh...
Saturday day trip to Biel winery with RC Geneva international. The program is: Noon: lunch in Biel/Bienne, lake-side restaurant, name to be confirmed/ 2pm: joint walk through the vineyards of Biel/Bienne (about 90 minutes) to Twann/ 4pm: wine tasting in the vineyards of Twann with light snacks/...
We will discover how quinine, extracted from cinchona bark, has evolved from the most effective treatment to cure malaria to an essential ingredient of Gin & Tonic cocktails, enjoyed all over the world. Didier Fatio is Founder & Managing Director of USILVERBACK, a corporate advisory company sup...
With over 15 years of professional experience Carsten Sudhoff offers a unique perspective on solving the leadership issues of today. He has worked in Banking, Automotive Finance, Automotive Manufacturing and in the Non-for-profit sector and he has lived or worked on three continents and in eight di...
On Saturday, October 26th in Zurich's St. Anna Kappelle, you will get an interactive immersion on the Rotary campaign to eradicate Polio. Läderach Schoggi and Rioja wine are sold in favor of the project. This event has been orgized by our club and fellow Cory Edwards in collaboration with the R...
General update on the club's current status and activities, announcement and voting of the new board 2020-2021
Registration by 01.11.2019 by Doodle link. SIMONA SCARPALEGGIA is CEO and incoming Head of the global initiative “The Future of our Work” of IKEA Schweiz where she managed strategy and operations of the retail business. She founded “Advance Women” in Switzerland in 2013, an organizati...
Nicolas Meudal is a Wastewater process engineer and founder of 1H2O3: the innovative startup for Aquaponics, aquaculture & sanitation.
Annual visit of our District Governor. For more info: https://www.rotary2000.ch/en/organisation/members/40288/magdalena-frommelt
Please register and place your order timely: Place your order sending an email to Sherif. Use the doodle link from Sherif to register your hands-on support. Like every year, the Christmas-wreath-making hands-on event is a great opportunity for us to contribute to a good cause by...
Our candidate Stefan Hristov will deliver his admission speech. Our Vereingemeindienst Chair, Reinhard Oertli, will update us about our club Verein. The club will approve by votation the Verein status.
Dr. iur. Anne-Catherine Hatt is Präsidentin Künstlerischen Kommission der Zünfte Zürichs. In this role, since years, she is responsible for the organization of the historical Sechseläuten festival of Zurich, in particular of the children's parade that open every year this event on the 3rd Monday of...
Our Membership Committee Chair, Lynn Strebel, will lead the pinning ceremony for all the new club members admitted along 2019.
Doodle Registration. Maria Larsson, art historian born in Switzerland, will lead us to discover the atelier of a visionary artist of Zurich, Dimitri Horta. Dimitri belongs to a young generation of indicatory artists whose expression builds upon the surrealism of the 1930s. His paint...
Theo Langer is a young student of the Kantonsschule Enge and IPA. He will present his class social project for helping young students in Mwasukwe, Malawi. By welcoming Theo, our club is also offering him a nice oppotunity for public speaking training about a cause which he is committed to. ...
Pia is fellow member of our club since 2009. She is a highly experienced communications and public affairs specialist, looking back at a career of nearly 20 years representing the interests of companies, associations and organizations. As a former Head of Communications, Consultant and Public A...
This special Interclub meeting is an occasion to strenghten our friendship with RC Zurich City and the other clubs invited. Referenten: Prof. Dr. Ing. Kay W. Axhausen ist seit 1999 Professor für Verkehrsplanung an der ETH Zürich. Vorherige berufliche Stationen waren die University of Oxford, I...
The Klosters Forum (TKF) takes place over 2.5 days in the Swiss Alps. They bring together a diverse group of 100 hand-picked innovators and decision-makers to focus on one chosen environmental challenge. Their objective is to come up with actionable solutions in order to help accelerate change, avo...
Casual meeting to touch base with our fellows after the suspension of presential meetings. Meeting on Webex link. Thanks to Carlo Moretto for sharing his Webex account.
Prof. Dr. Alexander F. Wagner is founder and past president of our club. He is Associate Professor of Finance at University of Zurich and distinguished member of Swiss Finance Institute. In his talk he will share the conclusions of his research included in his recent paper: " Feverish Stock Pr...
Chandra P. Leo is a long-time member of our club. He chaired different offices within the club and is the point of contact with St. Jude India, our international project in recent years Chandra has been working with innovative biotech companies since more than 15 years. He is a licensed physic...
We visit the Impact Hub of Selnau and assist to the pitch of 4 young startups focused on diverse industries. The visit and the pitches will be followed by an Apero riche. Thank you to Fabio Campanile for taking the lead in organizing the event.
Machen Sie mit beim "Run4Change Online" am 1.May 2020 Join us for the 2020 run4change Online special edition on May 1st REGISTRATION at: http://www.run4change.ch/run/ On May 1st we will hold a livestream event from 10.30am to 11am CET. During this time, we will virtually come together ...
Founders of Kids of Africa visit our club to speak about their organization and how COVID-19 is affecting their community in Africa. People of their community based in Uganda will call in. Kids of Africa enables hundreds of disadvantaged school children and about one hundred orphans to have a b...
Please be invited to our second yearly assembly of the Vereingemeindienst. Due to the recent Club Name Change we should vote about the new name of our Verein. Our fellow member and president of the RCZBI Verein, Reinhard Oertli, will lead the Assembly.
Sonja Wollkopft is Managing Director of the Greater Zürich Area, a key institution of Zurich which foster industrial and business development in the region. We are honored that Mrs. Sonja Wollkopft accepted our invitation to be guest speaker in our club and share her experience and vision about the...
