Lilian Held-Khawam

Lilian Held-Khawam has been business analyst and coach for international companies and strongly involved in organizational and management development. In 1989, she founded a company based in Lausanne (Switzerland) active in business strategy and management consulting. The slogan of the company is "The development of the Human within the development of the Organization".

She developed in 1996 a management system that integrates the development of processes, projects and human skills. This methodology, called MPC is a human-based business management system. The organization model was designed through a concentric frame, which was a new approach at that time. A process of scientific validation has been started with 5 Masters students at HEC Lausanne. Since 2011, she is focused on globalization analysis. She took an interest in political economy on September 6, 2011 when the Swiss National Bank artificially pegged the euro-Swiss franc floor rate at 1.20. (See here and here, in French). She is the author of three books:

Le Management par le coaching (MPC): Le cadre à la recherche de ses repères, Promind Editions in 2002.

Dépossession: Comment l'hyperpuissance d'une élite financière met Etats et citoyens à genoux, Ed. Réorganisation du Monde, 2018

Coup d'Etat Planétaire: Comment une élite financière s’arroge le pouvoir absolu par la captation universelle des ressources, Ed. Réorganisation du Monde, 2019

She is also the founder of her blog and co-founder of HR4Free whose objective is to re-humanize the economy by making HR and Management tools available free of charge. These sites are visited daily by several thousand people from all over the world. She is also an active member of Impressum Vaud, Vaud association of journalists (Switzerland). Born in Héliopolis (Egypt) and lived in Lebanon, France, Switzerland, United States (one year). Today she is bi-national (Switzerland-Lebanon) but with multiple origins (Byzantine, Armenian, Aleppo, Lebanese, Greek, Ethiopian). She graduated in 1982 as business economist from the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

The title of the presentation is “How money enabled the globalization of the planet?”, an overview of which you can find in Conference Materials.