15 Journalists: Longevity in Switzerland 1 Alexander Thoele swissinfo.ch (Swiss Broadcasting Corporation)

Alexander Thoele is a multimedia and multilingual journalist with 25 years' experience in digital, print (magazine and newspaper), TV and radio. He is a team leader employed by the swissinfo.ch, the international service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. Alexander is engaged in motivating a team of journalists to explain Switzerland to the international community and also active in the production of its content. He also has experience as public relations manager for multinational and corporate organizations.

Aging Analytics Agency 11 2 Avik Roy Forbes

Avik Roy is a journalist and policy advisor. Originally an investment analyst, he co-founded and is president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. While working as an investment research analyst in the late 2000s, Roy began blogging in response to the Patient Protection and , from a critical point of view. The blog was republished at National Review Online, and moved to Forbes in 2011. Roy has published two books about the Affordable Care Act, as well as research and proposals though the Manhattan Institute, where he was a senior fellow from 2011 to 2016. Roy has been a policy advisor to three Republican Party presidential candidates. He was a health care policy advisor to Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign and was the senior advisor to 's 2016 campaign. After Rick Perry withdrew from the race, Roy joined the 2016 presidential campaign of Marco Rubio as a policy advisor. At Forbes, National Review, and other venues, Roy writes on other topics related to politics and policy. Roy's financial and medical background, along with his experience on presidential campaigns makes him a frequent guest on cable news networks such as , , MSNBC, CNBC and .

Aging Analytics Agency 22 3 Béatrice Schaad IN VIVO

Béatrice is a Chief Editor of the IN VIVO Magazine. It is IN VIVO’s ambition to offer everyone an insight into the extraordinary richness of Lake Geneva’s “Health Valley”, where the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) plays a prominent role, but also to bring to the attention of a lay audience the advances made by the world-leading universities and research institutions with which the hospital works. Béatrice Schaad is a head of the Communication Department of the Lausanne University Hospital and was also appointed on August 1, 2019 full professor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in charge of the study of the relations between patients and professionals at the hospital.

Aging Analytics Agency 33 4 Celia Luterbacher Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

Celia Luterbacher is a science writer for the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) and the College of Humanities (CDH) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Previously, she led the science beat as a journalist for the swissinfo.ch, the international service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. Celia studied biology, science communication and policy at college and graduate school in her native USA. She made the move to Switzerland in 2013, where she now enjoys trying to keep up with Swiss research and technology.

Aging Analytics Agency 44 5 Daniel Saraga Swiss National Science Foundation

Daniel Saraga is a Head of Science Communication at the Swiss National Science Foundation and editor-in-chief of "Horizons". As a science journalist, he was previously in charge of the European science magazine "Technologist". Daniel Saraga studied physics at EPFL and obtained his PhD from University College London. He also worked as a researcher at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and founded the Café Scientifique Basel.

Aging Analytics Agency 55 6 Duc-Quang Nguyen swissinfo.ch (Swiss Broadcasting Corporation)

Duc-Quang Nguyen is a data journalist at swissinfo.ch, the international service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. Currently he performs a full suite of responsibilities associated with setting-up and leading the data-driven journalism for a newsroom: data analysis, open-source framework development, data visualisation, project management, data-led stories.

Duc-Quang Nguyen was born and raised by lake Geneva in Switzerland. He is PhD in genetics from Oxford University. Previously, Duc-Quang was a quantitative analyst for a hedge fund in Chicago and in Zug.

Aging Analytics Agency 66 7 Florian Fisch Swiss National Science Foundation

Florian Fisch is a science editor for biology and medicine at the Swiss National Science Foundation. He studied biology at the universities of Lausanne and Neuchâtel, did research work at the Botanical Institute in Basel and obtained his PhD in biochemistry at the University of York (UK). As a freelance journalist, he has contributed articles to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), NZZ am Sonntag, Laborjournal and other media outlets.

Aging Analytics Agency 77 8 Jeannie Wurz swissinfo.ch (Swiss Broadcasting Corporation)

Jeannie Wurz provides editing of medical texts for peer-reviewed journals, proofreading of conference materials, editing and production of newsletters. Since 1983, she have worked as a copy editor, production editor, and proofreader, in a range of full-time and free-lance positions. Her employers/clients have included a weekly news magazine, publishing companies, a graphic design firm, hospitals, universities, students, and non-profit organizations. From 2009 to 2012 Jeannie produced a quarterly newsletter for the London-based Committee on Publication Ethics. Jeannie Wurz has also published articles in a field of ageing on the swissinfo website.

Aging Analytics Agency 88 9 Jérôme Cosandey Avenir Suisse

Dr. Jérôme Cosandey, Director for French-speaking Switzerland and Head of Research “Sustainable Welfare State” of Avenir Suisse, focuses on old-age provision, health care and the intergenerational agreement. After his graduation at the ETH he worked a few years as a strategic advisor at the Boston Consulting Group and later at the UBS. Furthermore, he holds a Master’s Degree in International Economic History from the University of Geneva.

Aging Analytics Agency 99 10 Hannah Wise CNNMoney Switzerland

Hannah Wise is a television News Anchor at the CNNMoney Switzerland with experience in presentation and production at leading news channels around the world. She has a first class writing skills, solid interview techniques, video editing. CNNMoney Switzerland represents the first international extension of the CNNMoney brand and resulted from more than a year’s collaboration across CNNI television, commercial, digital, and CNNMoney.

Aging Analytics Agency 10 11 Kevin D. Williamson Foundation for Economic Education

Kevin D. Williamson is National Review’s roving correspondent and director of the National Review Institute’s William F. Buckley Jr Fellowship Program in Political Journalism.

He is the author of The End Is Near and It’s Going To Be Awesome: How Going Broke Will Leave America Richer, Happier, and More Secure, The Dependency Agenda, and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism. He contributed chapters to The New Leviathan: The State Vs. the Individual in the 21st Century and Future Tense: Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval. When he is not sounding the alarm about Fiscal Armageddon, he is the theater critic at The New Criterion.

Williamson began his journalism career at the Bombay-based Indian Express Newspaper Group and spent 15 years in the newspaper business in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. He served as editor-in-chief of three newspapers and was the founding editor of Philadelphia’s Bulletin. He is a regular commentator on Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, and NPR. His work has appeared in the New York Post, the New York Daily News, Commentary, Academic Questions, and other publications. He is a native of Lubbock, Texas.

Aging Analytics Agency 1111 12 Natasha Leeson The Pharmaceutical Journal

Natasha Leeson is a journalist at the Pharmaceutical Journal, the official monthly journal of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, provides information and analysis on the latest advances in any branch of pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical science throughout the world.

Natasha oversees journal`s peer review process and is responsible for the CPD, learning, review and research articles.

Aging Analytics Agency 12 13 Nelson D. Schwartz The New York Times

Mr. Schwartz is a graduate of the University of Chicago, and worked for 10 years at Fortune Magazine before joining the Times. Nelson D. Schwartz has worked at The New York Times for a decade and has covered economics since 2012. Before that, he wrote about Wall Street and banking for The Times, and also served as European economic correspondent in Paris from 2008 to 2010. He joined the paper in 2007 as a feature writer for the Sunday Business section.

In 2014, Mr. Schwartz was the recipient of the Nathaniel Nash Award, given annually by The Times to the reporter who “best excels in business and economic news.”

Aging Analytics Agency 13 14 Pierre-François Leyvraz IN VIVO

Pierre-François is a Chief Editor of the IN VIVO Magazine. He is a Director-General of the Hospices-CHUV in Lausanne. The Hospices-CHUV is the entire CHUV hospital system, comprising 11 clinical, medico-technical and academic departments, 2 psychiatric centers and the Gimel psychogeriatric home.

A specialist in reconstructive surgery, Professor Leyvraz is currently serving as medical director of the Orthopedic Hospital de Suisse Romande and head of the Orthopedics and Traumatology service of the CHUV. He founded a research group at EPFL in Orthopedics in 1987, and has held a position as external adjunct professor in EPFL's School of Engineering since 2005, where he is a member of EPFL's Institute of translational biomechanics.

Aging Analytics Agency 14 15 Sina Steininger Switzerland Global Enterprise

Sina Steininger is a Head of Information at Switzerland Global Enterprise, a non-profit association which promotes exports and investments by helping its clients to realize new potential for their international businesses and thus to strengthen Switzerland as an economic hub.

Sina is a communications specialist with a focus on media relations, online communications and Social Media, experience in PR and marketing. Proficient with new technologies, creative and innovative, she used to take initiative and responsibility. Her main qualities include reliability and project management skills.

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