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Office for audacity

The Of­fice for Au­da­city is an in­de­pend­ent and com­pet­ent con­duit for im­pact amp­li­fic­a­tion. We apply stra­tegic over­view and in­sider per­spect­ives:

To­geth­er, we com­bine ex­per­i­ence in the phil­an­throp­ic sec­tor and ex­pert­ise in build­ing, im­ple­ment­ing and op­er­a­tion­ally man­aging new or­gan­iz­a­tions and in­nov­at­ive pro­jects. We ask the right ques­tions, we listen and we solve press­ing prob­lems – our sup­port is tailored, prac­tice-ori­ented, ef­fect­ive.

Linda Sulzer

Director I Co-Founder

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Linda is a political scientist with a Master in Comparative and Swiss Politics from the University of Bern. After setting up a continued education center at ETH Zurich under former State Secretary Michael Ambühl, she moved into the funding landscape in 2018. She worked for several years at the Migros Pioneer Fund as theme owner for collaborative innovation. Subsequently, she developed the new funding strategy for Democracy at Stiftung Mercator Switzerland. In her professional career, Linda has met, evaluated and accompanied numerous pioneer projects. She is well connected in the philanthropic sector and in the world of social innovation projects and knows their language, challenges and pain points.

She is co-founder of the political campaign organization Operation Libero, was involved in setting up the think tank foraus (now on the board) and has informally accompanied various other social initiatives in their development.

Maria Isabelle Wieser

Senior Project Manager

Maria Isabelle Wieser holds a Master's degree in European Studies from the University of Geneva. She works as a Senior Project Manager for the Office for Audacity and is the Managing Director of the Swiss-UN Society. Previously, she served as Deputy Managing Director leading the Bureau Romand of the think tank foraus, after co-founding the organization's Gender Program in 2017. From 2016 to 2017, she worked as an Academic Associate at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Niniane Paeffgen

Co-Founder

Niniane studied International Affairs and Governance at the University of St. Gallen, SciencesPo Paris and wrote her Master's thesis at the American University of Beirut.

After positions at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris and the UN Security Council in New York, she spent three years establishing and managing the Swiss Digital Initiative Foundation for Digital Ethics. Niniane has first hand experience about putting a moonshot project into practice and what it takes: courage, resilience, the right support and sparring partners.