Studies at St Gallen School of Economics, Switzerland; MBA, INSEAD. Independent investor. President: Fondation Tour du Valat, Arles, France. Vice-Chairman: Roche Holding, Basel, Switzerland. Member of the Board: SYSTEMIQ, London, United Kingdom; Member of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, Cologny, Switzerland; as well as of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, San Francisco, US; Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Hoffmann Global Institute in Business and Society at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France; non-profit foundations. Interests: sustainability, business as a force for good, nature and opera
Tackling the climate and nature crises at the scale and speed they demand requires more than isolated efforts or conventional collaboration – it calls for partnerships that push boundarie...
• 企業や政策機関にとって目前の危機と長期的な課題に対し、同時に対応できる能力を高めることが重要な課題となっています。
The World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report in 2024 highlights that we live in times marked by multiple overlapping crises: extreme weather events, AI misinformation and societal polari...
El mundo se enfrenta a una tormenta perfecta de retos complejos e interconectados: crisis ambiental, sanitaria, financiera, humanitaria y de refugiados, por nombrar algunas. En momentos a...
The world is facing a perfect storm of complex, interconnected challenges: environmental, health, financial, humanitarian and refugee crises, to name a few. At times like these, effective...
El presente está lleno de miedo. Guerras, pandemias, calentamiento climático, desastres ecológicos, recesión económica, agitación social y política: No nos faltan motivos para tener miedo...
The present is full of fear. Wars, pandemics, climate warming, ecological disasters, economic downturn, social and political turmoil: We are not short of reasons to be fearful. In privile...
As we enter year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the threat of war looming over Europe, protecting people and the planet is not a nice-to-have, it is a must. A consensus is growi...
The world is in danger of losing 10% or more of its total GDP by the end of the century. This is the top takeaway from a recent stress-test study by Swiss Re that looks at the consequence...
Let’s face it: We have trust issues.
New year, new approaches – it's the perfect time to rethink many things we take for granted. Shakespeare’s advice, “Brevity is the soul of wit”, is telling: humanity will prosper if we ca...
Scientists have little doubt: the destruction of nature makes humanity increasingly vulnerable to disease outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, which has sickened millions, killed hundred...
BÂLE – Pour les scientifiques, le doute n’est plus vraiment permis : la destruction de la nature rend l’humanité de plus en plus vulnérable aux flambées de maladies, comme la pandémie du ...
Cuando era joven, en 1948, mi padre, Luc Hoffmann, bajó de las montañas suizas para instalarse en las marismas de la Camarga y compró la finca de Tour du Valat, con la idea de construir u...
When as a young man in 1948, my father, Luc Hoffmann, came down from the Swiss mountains, settled in the marshes of the Camargue and bought the Tour du Valat estate, imagining a centre de...
