Caroline Hunt

Caroline Hunt-Matthes

Caroline is an ethics and governance expert with a globe-trotting track record in human rights and criminal justice system reform. She has championed issues ranging from the provision of legal services to poor communities, to spearheading criminal justice reform in the US and Africa, and catalyzing new legislation to protect victims of domestic violence in the US.

She served for 14 years with 6 United Nations agencies including the World Food Programme, the World Health Organisation, UNAIDs, The international Labour Office as well as the Refugee and Human Rights agencies. She contributed her experience to the first United Nations Transitional Administration in the Former Yugoslavia after the war & the pioneering United Nations human rights field mission to Rwanda after the genocide.

Caroline currently wears several hats in Geneva including Director of Vision and Strategy for Essential Edge Geneva – an electronic magazine which links the English Speaking communities around Lake Geneva region to the rest of the world –and works with startup companies, dispensing strategic advice and conducting training on good governance within ethical frameworks. She serves on severak biards including an African NGO for the disabled.

She lives in a former Auberge in a small French village overlooking Lake Geneva with her husband and 2 children.