Dr. Barrueto has worked over 10 years in international sustainability, natural hazards and climate change. She excels in bringing international partners and local communities to technical, sustainable and capacity-building solutions. In addition to her science degrees, she has several complimentary credentials including Master coaching certifications and a degree in change and innovation management.

Andrea co-founded Alpine Azure, combining her passions of nature, climate and personal explorations. Alpine Azure offers Swiss mountain expeditions for women-only, co-ed teams and organisations to strengthen well-being, inspire personal development and reengage leadership skills. In her work as a consultant, she successfully supports clients in team building, change management and cultural development. She is the co-author of the book “The Design of Human Organisation” and “Job Crafting – make work better” published in 2023 and 2024. Apart she lectures at different universities leadership and change management and coaches selected clients in both German and English toward reaching their professional and personal goals. Currently she works on a mandate as a co-director supporting the transformation of three schools moving into a new building AND changing the way of teaching.

Andrea lives with her family in Switzerland.

Edy Portmann is Professor of Informatics at the Human-IST Institute of the University of Fribourg and member of the board of the Swiss Informatics Society. His transdisciplinary research focuses on soft and cognitive computing and its application to the network industry. After an apprenticeship as electronics technician, he studied business informatics and got a doctorate in fuzzy systems. Among others, he worked for Swisscom, PwC and EY. In addition, he was also a researcher at the universities of Singapore, Berkeley and Bern.