Amanda Voisard is a visual journalist and producer with over 20 years of experience focusing on social-issue multimedia projects. She was a key member of The Washington Post team that earned the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and later became the climate change photo assignment editor. In 2024, she joined UNICEF Headquarters as senior assigning photo editor.

Danaé Panchaud is a Swiss exhibition curator, museologist and lecturer specialising in photography. She has been the director of the Centre de la photographie Genève since 2022, after serving from 2018 to 2021 as director of Photoforum Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland.

Fiona Wachera is a media strategist, photo editor and the Storytelling & Content Specialist at the Aga Khan University. Wachera has collaborated with storytelling teams at Everyday Africa, the World Press Photo Foundation, Black Women Photographers, the Hamburg Portfolio Review, amongst others.

Jessica Lim is the director of the Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops (APFW), a non-profit organization in Cambodia that supports visual media practitioners in Asia. With over 15 years of experience, she focuses on amplifying visual voices from the majority world.

Juan Manuel from Mendoza, Argentina, served in the Argentine Air Force Academy and participated in UN Peacekeeping missions. After retiring in 2016, he joined the UN Department of Safety and Security and later became the Chief of the Physical Security Unit at the International Telecommunication Union. He is currently the President of the ITU Photo Club.

Paolo Pellegrin is a full member of Magnum Photos and has won numerous awards, including ten World Press Photo awards and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. Pellegrin has published eleven monographs.

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In collaboration with HEAD-Genève, we will have 5 student jury panel alongside the professional judges.