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Babette has 15+ years of professional experience in international cooperation, including almost 10 years in Africa and Asia. With a university degree in anthropology, political science and economics, she understands the sector from the perspective of both the field and headquarters. She has worked as a freelance consultant, as well as in NGOs, governmental agencies and multilateral organisations. Her skills in intercultural dialogue have been reinforced through several years of direct interaction with beneficiaries and partner organisations, which she considers an important foundation of her work. In addition to her advisory and coaching role in many of her previous jobs and with cinfo, Babette has also completed a practice-oriented CAS in Coaching.

Gabriela has been involved in counselling and supporting people, mainly in international cooperation, for 16 years. She has master's degrees in International Relations (Geneva) and Southeast Asian Studies (Bangkok). For 10 years she lived and worked in Asia, Africa and Southeast Europe, where she worked with humanitarian organisations such as the ICRC, UNHCR and SDC/SHA, as well as for a UN peacekeeping mission. After returning to Switzerland, she gained in-depth knowledge of the federal administration and the asylum sector. She complemented her many years of experience in intercultural communication with a CAS in Systemic Counselling, which she has also used outside of international cooperation: as an advisor at BNF, a programme of the University of Bern, she supported job-seeking academics in their reintegration into the Swiss labour market.