Benoît DUBUIS
- President of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences
Benoît Dubuis is President of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) and Chairman of the Inartis Foundation, which manages various programs to support innovation and entrepreneurship, including the Clefs du Savoir, MassChallenge, Espace Création and UniverCité/Station R editions.
Benoît Dubuis has over 30 years' international experience in the life sciences, both in industry and academia. An EPFL chemical engineer with a doctorate from ETH Zurich, he held various management positions in pharmaceutical companies (Chemap, Ciba-Geigy/Novartis, Lonza), before joining EPFL, where he founded the Life Sciences faculty and was its first dean.
In 2004, he co-founded the seed capital fund Éclosion in Geneva, and went on to found Excellgene, GenKyoTex and GeNeuro, the last two of which are listed on the stock exchange. In June 2013, he was appointed Director of Development at the Wyss Center and Director of the Campus Biotech Foundation, a position he left 10 years later to devote to the Inartis Foundation and the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, of which he has been President since 2021.
Benoît Dubuis is Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva and Dean of the SSIAT at the Shanghai University.
Topic
Innovation, the new currency of competition