Europe 05.09.2010 - 12.09.2010
Maryam Samsam Bakhtiari
I am a Swiss/Iranian national born in Geneva, Switzerland. I studied International Relations with Serge at the Graduate Institute for International Studies. I have then specialized through an MSc in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics. I now work in the financial work. I hope that I can foster fruitful debates with the participants in the field of European economics and the problematic surrounding Switzerland's banking secrecy.
Serge Maillard
I was born on October 3rd 1985 in Geneva. I hold a Master in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and focused my research on the topics of European integration and Swiss politics. Highly interested in the Media & Communication field, I launched the academic online newspaper eCHanges (www.echanges-online.ch) after a stay at the Polis Centre of the London School of Economics (LSE). Also fond of the topic of European integration, I worked at the Swiss Institute in Rome and at the Swiss Representation to the Council of Europe in 2009. I am currently studying at the Academy of Journalism and Media (AJM) in Neuchâtel and working for the press agency LargeNetwork. I have already organized in April 2009 a first trip to the European institutions for IFIL and I am glad of taking up this challenge once again in 2010.