Keynote speech by Nora Bateson on the theme of “Governance in All Its Forms”• Rhone Economic Forum 2015 (Forum Economique Rhôdanien 2015) conference, Maison de la Paix, Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland, 8 September 2015.
The Rhone Economic Forum is a network of stakeholders in the Rhone river basin stretching from the Swiss Alps down to the French coast of the Mediterranean Sea ( https://forum-rhodanien.org )
Nora Bateson is the President of the International Bateson Institute ( http://www.internationalbatesoninstit… ) and the producer-director of the documentary film, An Ecology of Mind ( http://www.anecologyofmind.com ). She is a member of the Club of Rome and of the board of advisers of Global Vision Foundation and other organizations.
Nora’s speech is preceded by a short introduction by Michael O’Callaghan, Founder and President of Global Vision Foundation ( http://www.global-vision.org ) in Geneva.
This video is in English (after the first minute in French with English subtitles).
The conference was opened by the former President of the State Council of Geneva, Dominique Föllmi, and included presentations by the former French Minister of Culture Luc Ferry; Global Vision Foundation Director Michael O’Callaghan; the President of our board of trustees Prof. Charles Méla (who is also the President of the European Centre of Culture http://www.ceculture.org ); and a second member of our board of advisers, Guillaume Chenevière (President of the Media and Society Foundation http://www.media-society.org ).
The event was co-sponsored by: the Swiss Confederation • Republic of France (embassy in Switzerland) • Global Vision Foundation • European Centre of Culture • foraus (the Swiss foreign policy think tank) • Banque CIC • CCI France Suisse – (the Franco-Swiss Chamber of Commerce) • CCIG – Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of Geneva • Banque Populaire (Bourgogne Franche-Compté) • CCE (French Foreign Trade Councillors) • Business Valais • Harsch • MEDEF Rhône-Alpes.
This video was produced by FER 2015 and edited by Michael O’Callaghan.
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