TEDxRC2 - speakers

Meet our amazing speakers and performers. Click on their profiles to watch their TEDxRC² talks. We were very honored to have the European Director of TED and the curator of TEDGlobal, Bruno Giussani, as our wonderful host.

Jonas Gahr Støre

Jonas Gahr Støre is the current Norwegian Foreign Minister. He has previously served as a special advisor, director general, state secretary and chief of staff in the Norwegian Prime Minister's office.
Paul Conneally

Paul Conneally is a former journalist turned aid worker, who has spent more than ten years "in the field," with both the ICRC and IFRC, working with communities affected by war and disaster.
Heather Blanchard

Heather Blanchard is a social entrepreneur, who works on the front lines of the online crisis crowd by connecting people, tools and resources.
Patrick Chappatte

Patrick is a renowned editorial cartoonist and previous TEDGlobal and TEDxParis talker.
Edna Adan Ismail

Edna Adan Ismail is a nurse, midwife, UN diplomat, French Legion of Honour recipient and former foreign minister of Somaliland.
Bruno Giussani

Bruno is the curator of TEDGlobal, one of TED's two annual conferences. He is also hosting our TEDxRC²
Seckou Keita

Seckou, a native of south Senegal, began his musical training at a very early age. He has been touring for the past 12 years and has been fundraising for the ICRC since November 2010.
Fiona Terry

Fiona Terry has spent 20 years involved in humanitarian operations in different parts of the world including northern Iraq, Somalia, the Great Lakes region of Africa, Liberia and Sudan.
Alberto Cairo

Alberto is the head of the ICRC's orthopaedic programme in Afghanistan. He's spent the past two decades helping an estimated 100,000 landmine victims learn to walk again.

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Jonas Gahr Støre

Jonas Gahr Støre is the current Norwegian Foreign Minister. He has previously served as a special advisor, director general, state secretary and chief of staff in the Norwegian Prime Minister's office.

Paul Conneally

Paul Conneally is a former journalist turned aid worker, who has spent more than ten years "in the field," with both the ICRC and IFRC, working with communities affected by war and disaster.

Heather Blanchard

Heather Blanchard is a social entrepreneur, who works on the front lines of the online crisis crowd by connecting people, tools and resources.

Patrick Chappatte

Patrick is a renowned editorial cartoonist and previous TEDGlobal and TEDxParis talker.

Edna Adan Ismail

Edna Adan Ismail is a nurse, midwife, UN diplomat, French Legion of Honour recipient and former foreign minister of Somaliland.

Bruno Giussani

Bruno is the curator of TEDGlobal, one of TED's two annual conferences. He is also hosting our TEDxRC²

Seckou Keita

Seckou, a native of south Senegal, began his musical training at a very early age. He has been touring for the past 12 years and has been fundraising for the ICRC since November 2010.

Fiona Terry

Fiona Terry has spent 20 years involved in humanitarian operations in different parts of the world including northern Iraq, Somalia, the Great Lakes region of Africa, Liberia and Sudan.

Alberto Cairo

Alberto is the head of the ICRC's orthopaedic programme in Afghanistan. He's spent the past two decades helping an estimated 100,000 landmine victims learn to walk again.