Stéphane Koch 

Stéphane Koch is an independent trainer and expert who has been working in the digital sector since the mid-1990s. With a Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Combating Economic Crime, training in telecommunications, and a degree in Public Relations, he was a member of the Swiss Public Relations Society (SRRP) committee for over 10 years. Specializing in digital risk prevention, his understanding of the information cycle enables him to work in four complementary areas: information security, crisis management, online reputation management, and combating disinformation and fact checking.

A trainer and lecturer, Stéphane Koch has been teaching for many years at several universities in French-speaking Switzerland and abroad, including the École Supérieure de Management (ESM), at SAWI as part of the Public Relations Specialist program, at the University of Geneva as part of the MAS in Information Security, at the Swiss Police Institute as part of the CAS HES-SO in Security and Safety (SEC) at HEIG in Yverdon, and at HEG ARC as part of the MAS in Combating Economic Crime. He also taught for several years at the École de Guerre Économique in Paris.

For more than 10 years, Stéphane Koch has been contributing to the information security training of journalists for Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and provided training at the Medill School of Journalism (US), the National Press Club (US), the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (US), the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (US), the Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism at New York University, the Centre de Formation et de Perfectionnement des Journalistes (CFPJ / Paris), as well as local journalists in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia. Stéphane Koch is regularly sought after as an expert by the Swiss media and through written and radio columns. He has also contributed to the Revue Défense Nationale (RDN / France) on the topic of disinformation.

In 2000, the economic magazine Bilan selected him for its “Who's Who” list of 100 personalities in the Swiss French-speaking region's net economy. More than a decade later, in 2012, the weekly magazine L'Hebdo also ranked him among the “100 personalities who make up French-speaking Switzerland” in the category of rising stars and behind-the-scenes experts in the sector.