Thomas EGLI
Organisations
Thomas EGLI is member of the following organisations :
- Geneva Foundation for the Future, Steering Committee member and coordinator (read the AGILE finance White Book here)
- NGO Objectif Sciences International, Founder and Executive Committee member
- Geneva Forum, Founder and CEO
- Foundation Anne-Marie KEMENESI, President
- Terra Scientifica, International Fair of Participatory Science and Scientific Travel, Founder and CEO
- The Learning Project Foundation, Creator
- StepOne (St1), #STEAMS for #SDGS, Hackathon training on Participatory Science Project Based Learning for SDGs, Creator, Trainer and Facilitator
- Donate and Act, Creator
- Harmony with Nature Programme of United Nations, Expert
- Committees of selection for funding projects, Member or President, Vice-President
Bio
Thomas EGLI is the founder of the NGO Objectif Sciences International (Special Consultative Status to United Nations’ ECOSOC) which is leading Projects of Participatory Research for SDGs (learning by doing Education to Science and Citizen Sciences) since 1992, in all continents.
He invented and created the 1st Participatory Research Camps in 2004.
Thomas is CEO of the [GENEVA FORUM since 2001, organizing the International Annual Conferences around the world, at UNESCO and/or the UN from time to time on several key factors topics as "Rights of Nature", "Sustainable Tourism and Responsible Travel", "Inclusive Education by Project Based Learning", "Responsible Finance" or "Citizen Sciences and Participatory Research", in order to allow all the actors and operators in these domains to exchange, meet and share directly and at the largest international level. In this frame he organizes also several annual events at UNESCO (Paris), as the Conference on Participatory Science, governemental Scientifics Policies and achievment of the Sustainable Development Goals. He is also expert for the Harmony with Nature Programme of United Nations on Holistic Science and Complex Systems, Education and Environment.
His first books were published in 2001.
He is also the author of the books "The Ideas of the Living" (Techniques of biomimicry and bioinspired organization applied to the optimization of the organizations / NGO / company ans symbiotic economy) and "The Thought of the World" (Philosophy of Sciences). Specialized in systemic since 2001 and in Management of Technology since 2007, he is a consultant in Management, Bioinspired Organization, Holacracy, Business Management, NGO Development, Techniques of Excellence, and Management of Disruptive Technologies.
Thomas EGLI started to work in 1992, aged 17 years old, as scientific facilitator (astronomy, robotics, aerospace and ecology-biodiversity).
Fields of Specialty
- Systemics
- Management of Complex Adaptive Systems
- Participative Management
- Shared Governance
- NGO Governance
- Project Pedagogy
- Project-based teaching
- Science Education
- Citizen Sciences
- Participatory Science
- Participatory Research
- Application of Participatory Science in Government Policies
- Economic Viability of Solidarity Projects
- Monitoring and Assessment of Entrepreneurial Projects
- Management of disruptive technologies (schematic innovation and business development)
- International Relations for Sustainable Development
- Technics of Facilitating for Strong Consensual Decisions
Articles
Exclusive Workshop - What new models of collaboration to jointly relaunch Geneva’s international hub?
Program of December 2026 Forum - A Pro-to-Pro Boot Camp Dedicated to Impact
Enterprise and Wealth Creation for Impact
The Concept
Since 2001, Sustainable Development Projects have their own Business Forum.
Geneva Forum Community Digest
Interview with Mr. Thomas EGLI: Supporting an Existing Project Towards Impact
Geneva, the Impact Capital
Permanent Mission of Portugal to the UN in Geneva
UNESCO
Chambre de Commerce, d’Industrie et des Services de Genève - CCIG
ARCHIVE – Monday 8th December 2025 at Palais des Nations, Geneva – Impact Finance, Investment, Philanthropy and Blended Finance for Peace and Development
Objectif Sciences International
ARCHIVE – Friday, December 12, 2025 at Palais des Nations, Geneva – Regenerative Tourism as a Driver of Transition addressing all challenges
Earth Law Alliance
International Geneva: From Wei-Ji to Reinvention — When Crisis Becomes Opportunity
Geneva Foundation for the Future
Assessment of the Geneva Forum – December 2025
Press Release - The Geneva Forum’s 2026 proposal:
Impact Entrepreneurship
An Agile tool for Impact Finance
What kind of smart currency for sustainable development?
New types of Regenerative Tourism
Citizen Science Alliances
Participatory Science and Participatory Research for Impact
Emotions x Project Based Learning
Peace by Capacity Building
What rights for ocean?
Informal Education for a Non-anthropocentric Relationship with Nature
Quand le voyage devient une manière d’explorer,...
Criteria tool designed for impact investors and philanthropists to identify, evaluate, monitor, coach and assess impact projects
Climate-neutral, socially responsible plant-or mushroom-based leather alternatives sought
Step and Go - Training for Development
Drones for Change and Innovation
Business Models for Regenerative Forests
Fondation Anne-Marie KEMENESI - Centre d’Entraînement aux Métiers de l’Entreprenariat à Impact
Geneva Innovation Movement
The Logical Framework tool for framing an Impact Business or a Mission-Driven Project
The source person: what impact organisations often carry without naming it
Growing Without Slowing Down: A 5-Minute Viability Test for Mission-Driven Organizations
One compass, several instruments: how to combine AGILE and UNEP FI tools to steer impact
2026 May 22 Meeting Report - Governance of Ocean Resilience from and through International Geneva
Management workshop: Strategic Foresight applied to Global Impact Projects
Monthly Workshop Report of May 22, 2026 – Global Impact Projects: International Geneva, from framework to robustness
Report and Statement – Impact Finance: AGILE Tool Dry Run – Geneva Forum 2025
Next financial crisis: Preparing better by approaching the 21st-century economy through the major laws of complex systems
In the face of crises, building an economy that lasts: Impact business models, smart currencies and bio-inspired financial architectures.
In the face of systemic crises, can economic resilience be programmed? Smart currencies and bio-inspired models.
Why mission-driven businesses can become the most robust companies in the face of systemic risks.
Proceedings Ethical Currencies Geneva Forum 2024
What if tourism could support your missions?
Resilient and regenerative tourism in support of humanitarian action, solidarity and multilateralism
Proceedings and Declaration - Resilient and Regenerative Tourism - Geneva Forum 2025
Proceedings Citizen and Participatory Science Geneva Forum 2025
Proceedings and Declaration - Conflict Mediation, Peace and Security - Geneva Forum 2025
Traditional medicine, One Health, integrated health and impact entrepreneurship: bringing health back into harmony with nature
Proceedings and Declaration - Rights of Nature - Geneva Forum 2025
Program of passed Geneva Forum 2025 - A Pro-to-Pro Boot Camp Dedicated to Impact
Aligning International Geneva and Impact Finance? Report on the Official Opening Session of the 17th Geneva Forum at the UN, December 8, 2025
The Role of Participatory Science in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Can the creation of ethical currencies address several fundamental issues currently facing the planet?
Where Do the 4’000 Billion euros Invested Each Year in Impact Finance Actually Go?
PROSPECTIVE MONOGRAPH - What governance for Ocean resilience from and through International Geneva?
