The LOEB Fellowship

Samuel Bonnet is a leading figure in the fields of healthcare infrastructure and humanitarian aid. He currently serves as Director at the University Hospitals of Geneva (Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, HUG), a role he began on September 1, 2023. In this capacity, Bonnet oversees the infrastructure and real estate of the largest university hospital complex in Switzerland, and one of the most extensive in Europe, which includes eight public hospitals and two clinics.

Before his tenure at HUG, Bonnet held significant positions at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), notably Senior Advisor to the Director-General (2018-2023) and Head of Construction (2010-2017). He led large-scale health infrastructure projects in over 20 countries affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters, notably in Haiti, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Myanmar. He authored the Physical Rehabilitation Centres Architectural Programming Handbook and contributed to several manuals on design standards in humanitarian and development environments.

Bonnet graduated from a French Grande École and was a partner at a prominent Paris-based international firm pioneering sustainable construction at the turn of the 2000s. He taught architecture and urban planning at several graduate schools of architecture and urban planning.