Bruno Giussani (born in Switzerland in 1964) is the International curator of TED. He was for 10 years the organization's European Director and member of its senior team, curating and co-hosting TEDGlobal, TEDSummit and various TED special events. Besides his role with TED, he is the Chairman of FIFDH, the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, which takes place every year in March, and a member of the Board of Directors of Tinext Group, a Swiss software firm he co-founded. From 2005 to 2015 he curated and hosted the annual Swiss conference, Forum des 100. Through his firm Giussani Group LLC he advises public organisations, such as the ICRC, as well as private companies, is an author and a frequent public speaker. In 2011, 2012 and 2014 Wired UK selected him as one of the "Wired 100". In January 2016 he received the SwissAward/Person of the year 2015 in the category "Economy". He lives in Switzerland. TED Giussani is the International Curator of TED, the nonprofit organization behind the TED conferences and the popular online TEDtalks, and was for 10 years a member of its senior team. Since 2005, he has curated hundreds of TED Talks, including by Pope Francis, Antonio Guterres, Margrethe Vestager, Elif Shafak, Daniel Suarez, Jennifer Doudna, Alejandro Aravena, Melissa Fleming, Malte Spitz, Charmian Gooch, Taryn Simon, Melinda Gates and Bill Gates, Amy Cuddy, Alain de Botton, Glenn Greenwald, Suzanne Simard, Yanis Varoufakis, Wayne McGregor, Jon Ronson, Yuval Noah Harari, Tim Harford, Richard Wilkinson, Hans and Ola Rosling, Pico Iyer, Dambisa Moyo, Zeynep Tufekci, Michael Green, Elizabeth Lev, Hilary Cottam, Vincent Moon and Nana Vasconcelos, Kimberley Motley, Fred Swaniker, Gerard Ryle, James Veitch, Carole Cadwalladr, Tim Berners-Lee, Alex Honnold, Johan Rockström, Nicola Sturgeon, Tshering Tobgay, Tracy Chevalier, George Monbiot, Alain de Botton, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Mariana Mazzucato. Through conferences, TED Talks available free of charge and subtitled in many languages, the Audacious Project, the TED Fellowship, an educational initiative called TED-Ed, thousands of local independently organized events under the label TEDx, collaborations with organisations ranging from NPR to Chinese web portals and Indian television, and more, TED focuses on "Ideas Worth Spreading." Its flagship conferences are considered among the world's most innovative and are regularly sold out months in advance. Giussani joined TED in 2005, and produced the first TEDGlobal event in Oxford, England. TEDGlobal 2014 took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,