45 Notable alumni of
University of Neuchatel
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The University of Neuchatel is 1566th in the world, 535th in Europe, and 12th in Switzerland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 45 notable alumni from the University of Neuchatel sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jean Piaget
- Occupations
- malacologistuniversity teacherphilosopherpedagoguezoologist
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Jean William Fritz Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called genetic epistemology.
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Gianni Infantino Riovaldi
- Occupations
- sports official
- Biography
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Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino is a Swiss-Italian football administrator and the president of FIFA since February 2016. He was re-elected in June 2019 and in March 2023. In January 2020, he was also elected a member of the International Olympic Committee.
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Mohammad Mosaddegh
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- diplomatpoliticianwriter
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Mohammad Mosaddegh was an Iranian politician, author, and lawyer who served as the 30th Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. He was a member of the Iranian parliament from 1923, and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis, until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr. His National Front was suppressed from the 1954 election.
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Alain Berset
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- politicianinternational forum participanteconomist
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Alain Berset is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2012 to 2023. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), he headed the Federal Department of Home Affairs from when he took office. Berset served as President of the Swiss Confederation for 2018 and 2023.
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Didier Burkhalter
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- politicianinternational forum participanteconomist
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Didier Eric Burkhalter is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2009 to 2017. A member of FDP.The Liberals, he was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2014.
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Ünal Aysal
- Occupations
- businesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Ünal Aysal is a Turkish businessman. He was the chairman of Galatasaray S.K.
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Denis de Rougemont
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- writeruniversity teacheressayisttranslatorphilosopher
- Biography
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Denys Louis de Rougemont, known as Denis de Rougemont ( French: [dəni də ʁuʒmɔ̃]), was a Swiss writer and cultural theorist who wrote in French. One of the non-conformists of the 1930s, he addressed the perils of totalitarianism from a Christian point of view. After the Second World War, he promoted European federalism.
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Saeed Nafisi
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- historianwriterpoettranslatorliterary
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Saeed Nafisi was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian.
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Dick Marty
- Enrolled in the University of Neuchatel
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- lawyerjuristprosecutorpolitician
- Biography
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Dick Marty was a Swiss politician (FDP.The Liberals) and state prosecutor of the canton of Ticino. He was a member of the Swiss Council of States (from 1995 to 2011) and of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
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Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau
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- diplomatpoliticianjurist
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Ulrich Karl Christian Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau was a German diplomat who became the first Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic. In that capacity, he led the German delegation at the Paris Peace Conference but resigned over the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. He was also the German ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1928.
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Elisabeth Baume-Schneider
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- politician
- Biography
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Élisabeth Baume-Schneider is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a current member of the Federal Council. She was elected on 7 December 2022, the first ever elected member from the Canton of Jura.
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Emma Twigg
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- rower
- Biography
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Emma Kimberley Twigg is a New Zealand rower. A single sculler, she was the 2014 world champion and won gold in her fourth Olympics in Tokyo in July 2021. Previous Olympic appearances were in 2008 (ninth place), 2012 (fourth place), and 2016 (fourth place). She has retired from rowing twice, first for master-level studies in Europe in 2015 and then after the 2016 Olympics, disappointed at having narrowly missed an Olympic medal for the second time. After two years off the water, she started training again in 2018 and won silver at the 2019 World Rowing Championships. Since her marriage in 2020, she has become an outspoken advocate for LGBT athletes. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Twigg won gold in the woman's single scull.
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Pierre Aubert
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- politicianscreenwriterlawyer
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Pierre Aubert was a Swiss politician, lawyer and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1978–1987).
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Alison Wolf
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- aristocrateconomistpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alison Margaret Wolf, Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, is a British economist, academic, and life peer. She is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College London; Director of the International Centre for University Policy Research, King's Policy Institute; and Director of the university's MSc programme in Public Sector Policy and Management. Her latest book is The XX Factor (published by Crown Books in the US and Profile Books in the UK).
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Pierre Graber
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pierre Graber was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970–1978).
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Philippe Lazzarini
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Enrolled in the University of Neuchatel
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
- Occupations
- economistadministrator
- Biography
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Philippe Lazzarini is a Swiss-Italian who has been serving as Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) since 2020.
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Frédéric Louis Godet
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- theologianuniversity teacher
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Frédéric Louis Godet was a Swiss Protestant theologian.
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Céline Vara
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- politicianlawyer
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Céline Vara is a Swiss-Italian lawyer and politician of the Green Party of Switzerland (GPS). She is currently a member of the Council of States of Switzerland.
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Anne-Lise Grobéty
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- journalistpoetnovelistwriter
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Anne-Lise Grobéty was a French-language Swiss journalist and an author of short stories, poetry and radio plays.
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Huang Jiqing
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- geologist
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Huang Jiqing, also known by his courtesy name Huang Degan (Chinese: 黄德淦; Te-Kan Huang), was a Chinese geologist. He was born March 30, 1904, in Renshou, Sichuan to an intellectual family. In 1928 he obtained his bachelor's degree at Peking University, and in 1935 he got his PhD at University of Neuchâtel, Swiss. After returning to China he taught at National Central University and Peking University, and served as director of the National Geological Survey, president of the Geological Society of China, director of the Southwest Geological Bureau, deputy director of the Academic Division of Earth Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy president of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. In 1980 Huang received an honorary doctorate from the ETH Zurich, and in 1985 he was elected as an honorary member of Geological Society of America.
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Henri-Alexandre Junod
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- naturalisttheologianentomologistlinguistzoological collector
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Henri-Alexandre Junod was a Swiss-born South African missionary, ethnographer, anthropologist, linguist and naturalist, stationed for much of his career at Shiluvane Mission Station outside Tzaneen in Limpopo Province. He received an early training in Protestant ministry at Neuchâtel, Basel and Berlin. He was one of the founding members of the Lemana Training College at Njhakanjhaka village near the Township of Waterval at Elim in 1906. Together with Reverend Creux of Valdezia Mission Station, he codified the language of the Tsonga people, which they called 'Thonga', but later renamed Xitsonga. Together with a group of Swiss Missionaries, such as Georges Liengme, he helped in the establishment of Elim Hospital in 1899.
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Ye Peijian
- Occupations
- aerospace engineerengineer
- Biography
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Ye Peijian is a Chinese aerospace engineer. He is the Chief Commander and Chief Designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.
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Raphaël Comte
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- politicianlawyer
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Raphaël Comte is a Swiss lawyer and politician. He has served as a member of the Council of States from 1 March 2010 to 1 December 2019, and was its president from 2015 to 2016.
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Robert Comtesse
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Robert Comtesse was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1912).
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Jamie McGrigor
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- politician
- Biography
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Sir James Angus Rhoderick Neil McGrigor, 6th Baronet is a former Scottish Conservative Party politician, who was an Argyll and Bute Councillor for the Oban South and the Isles Ward from 2017 to 2022. He had previously been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Highlands and Islands region from 1999 until 2016.
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Damien Cottier
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Damien Cottier is a Swiss politician. He was elected to the National Council in 2019, where he represents Neuchâtel. He also represents Switzerland at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Cottier is a member of the centre-right Radical-Liberal Party.
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Charles Juillard
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- politician
- Biography
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Charles Juillard is a Swiss politician who is a member of the Council of States of Switzerland.
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René M. Stulz
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- economist
- Biography
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René M. Stulz is a professor of finance at the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has taught at a variety of universities including the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago, Harvard University, Northwestern University, and the University of Southern California. He has published over 100 articles in finance and economic journals on topics ranging from corporate finance, corporate governance, asset pricing, financial institutions, and risk management, which have been cited over 47,000 times. He served as editor of the Journal of Financial Economics from 1982 to 1987 and the Journal of Finance from 1988 to 2000.
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Avrahm Yarmolinsky
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- journalistliterary critichistoriantranslator
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Avrahm Yarmolinsky was an author, translator, and the husband of Babette Deutsch.
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Mimi Khalvati
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Mimi Khalvati is an Iranian-born British poet. She is the recipient of the King's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2023, awarded for "her outstanding talent and ability to draw on diverse cultural traditions – Iranian, English and American – to enrich British poetry".
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Thomas Hefti
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Hefti is a politician from Switzerland who served as President of the Swiss Council of States from 2021 to 2022 and Member of the Swiss Council of States from 2014.
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Philippe Bauer
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- politician
- Biography
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Philippe Bauer is a Swiss politician who is a member of the Council of States of Switzerland.
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Valentine Python
- Enrolled in the University of Neuchatel
- Studied in 2006
- Occupations
- politicianclimatologist
- Biography
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Valentine Python is a Swiss climatologist and a member in the National Council of Switzerland of the Green Party of Switzerland (GPS).
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Catherine Gfeller
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- artist
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Catherine Gfeller is a Swiss artist. She currently lives and works in Paris and Southern France after having lived in New York from 1995 to 1999.
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Mireille Grosjean
- Occupations
- Esperantistteacher
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Mireille Grosjean is a Swiss Esperantist, president of the Swiss-Esperanto Society (SES), and president of the International League of Esperanto Teachers (ILEI) from 2013 till 2021. Her native language is French. She is a teacher about foreign languages.
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Robert Forrest Burgess
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- 1927-.. (age 97)
- Occupations
- novelist
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Robert Forrest Burgess is an American author of non-fiction adventure books, as well as sport fishing and scuba diving magazine articles. His photographs illustrate his material.
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Louis François de Pourtalès
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- zoologistnaturalist
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Louis François de Pourtalès was a Franco-American naturalist, born at Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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Eugénie Droz
- Enrolled in the University of Neuchatel
- In 1935 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- editing staffromanisthistorianliterary historianpublisher
- Biography
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Eugénie Droz was a Swiss romance scholar, editor publisher and writer, originally from the Suisse Romande. She created the Librairie Droz, a publisher and seller of academic books, at Paris in 1924, moving the business to Geneva at the end of the war.
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Monique Laederach
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- literary criticpoettranslatorwriter
- Biography
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Monique Laederach was a Swiss writer and translator.
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Alain M. Robert
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- 1941-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Alain M. Robert is Honorary Professor at University of Neuchâtel. Robert received his PhD from the University of Neuchâtel in 1967, where he studied under Roger Bader. His dissertation Quelques Questions d'Espaces Vectoriels Topologiques concerned topological vector spaces.
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Naima Sahlbom
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- chemistpeace activist
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Naima Sahlbom was a Swedish chemist, mineralogist, and peace activist. She is considered to be one of Sweden's most notable women chemists of the early 20th century.
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Paul Besson
- Enrolled in the University of Neuchatel
- Studied in 1868
- Occupations
- theologian
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Paul-Henri Besson was a Swiss Baptist missionary, biblical scholar, linguist, writer and historian. Paul Besson is considered the initiator of the Evangelical Baptist Convention of Argentina. He is known for his translation of the New Testament, the first in all of Latin America, from koine Greek into Spanish. Besson was recognized by the entire Argentine Protestant movement.
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Jörg De Bernardi
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- politician
- Biography
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Jörg De Bernardi is a Swiss diplomat and politician. He held the office of Vice-Chancellor of Switzerland between August 2016 and December 2018, in charge of the Federal Council's affairs.
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Otto Schneider-Orelli
- Occupations
- entomologistoenologistbotanist
- Biography
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Otto Schneider-Orelli was a Swiss entomologist.
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Justin Picard
- Occupations
- engineerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Justin Picard is a Swiss-Canadian engineer and entrepreneur who currently serves as the chief technology officer of Scantrust, a company he co-founded in 2013. He is the inventor of the copy detection pattern, a digital authentication technology for detecting product and document counterfeiting.
