Caroline Hunt-Matthes
Investigator & Inquirer
Organisational ethics & culture expert
Justice reformer

Caroline is an innovator and strategic thinker with a globe-trotting track record in human rights and criminal justice system reform, using her legal training champion issues ranging from the provision of legal services to poor communities, to spearheading criminal justice reform systems from the US to central Africa, and being a catalyst for new legislation to protect victims of domestic violence in the US State of Delaware.

Expertise? Innovation and strategic thinking, organisational ethics, cultural change and ethical governance – all with an acute legal mind.

Passions? Supporting communities, human welfare, justice, ecology and creating sustainable business opportunities.

She served for 14 years with 6 United Nations agencies including the World Food Programme, the World Health Organisation, UNAIDs and the Emergency Coordination Organisation OCHA, as well as the Refugee and Human Rights agencies. She contributed her experience to the first United Nations Transitional Administration in the Former Yugoslavia after the war & the pioneering United Nations human rights field mission to Rwanda after the genocide.

Caroline currently wears several hats in Geneva including Director of Vision and Strategy for Essential Edge Geneva – an electronic magazine which links the English Speaking communities around Lake Geneva region to the rest of the world –and works with startup companies, dispensing strategic advice and conducting training on good governance within ethical frameworks.

She recently co-authored “In Search of Heros – A series to inspire kids by kids” with her 9 year old daughter, and, with her passion for grassroots eco-initiatives, continues to work on the preservation of Lake Geneva.

She lives in a former Auberge in a French village overlooking Lake Geneva with her husband and 2 children.