Barbara Pravi

Patron of the 23rd UNESCO Sound Week

An unrepentant serotonin dealer, Barbara Pravi is known for encouraging self-love (Bravo), positive rebellion (Lève-toi) and respect for freedoms (Marianne, L’exil et l’asile).

In 2021, her masterful Voilà, now a quadruple diamond single with over 200 million streams, earned her second place at Eurovision and set her vibrato on the road to fame. Thanks to the album On n’enferme pas les oiseaux, which sold over 100,000 copies in France and abroad, she went on to win the “Révélation féminine” award at the Victoires de la musique awards and the Grand Prix Sacem for song of the year.

Patron of the Collective d’Arles, a women’s self-help center, the woman who testified about her abortions and denounced the toxic violence of her first boyfriend puts a tune in her personal jukebox every March 8, her cascade of loops and her enthusiasm at the service of her fellow human beings. His songs draw their sap from his convictions, but also from his family tree, whose ramifications stretch from Serbia to Iran, Poland and France. For her latest album, the artist retraced the thread of her ancestry, following in the footsteps of a gypsy ancestor, christened la Pieva, literally the singer, a widow who travelled from village to village in the Serbian mountains.

On stage, seasoned by a 150-date tour of 20 countries, she has swapped her faux-partner looks for a leonine power. Knowing how to love herself better, she sows passions, in the manner of Dalida, whose hits she covered at Radio France’s Hyper Weekend Festival. Explosive, twirling, flailing her arms or holding out her fist, she has the effervescence of those who take everything in their stride. Generous, she can set off an ola in a stadium of 80,000 people, as she did at the opening of the Jeux de la Francophonie in Congo, or deliver a piano-voice in the intimacy of a chapel. She won’t fail to perform at Le Zénith in Paris on March 26, 2026.

Pascal Lamy

Sponsor of the 23rd UNESCO Sound Week

Coordinator of the Jacques Delors Think Tank network (Paris, Berlin, Brussels), Vice-President of the Paris Peace Forum (PPF), former European Commissioner and Director-General of the WTO.

Pascal Lamy (pascallamy.eu) is Vice-President of the Paris Peace Forum and of the Europe branch of the Brunswick Group. He coordinates the Jacques Delors Institutes (Paris, Berlin, Brussels).
He is Vice-Chairman of the Blue Economy and Finance Forum (UNOC3 2025). He is also Chairman or member of various global, European and French boards (European Starfish Mission (ocean), Mo Ibrahim Foundation, European Climate Foundation, IFPRI, IFPIM, PECC, CERRE, TMEA, Antarctica 2020, Transparency International, Alpbach Forum, Beijing Forum, World Trade Forum, WEF, Global Risks, Europaeum, Collegium international, Musiciens du Louvre, Institut Mendes-France, Fondation Colbert, etc.).
He is an affiliated professor at China Europe International Business School CEIBS (Shanghai) and HEC (Paris).
From 2005 to 2013, Pascal Lamy served two consecutive terms as Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). He was previously Trade Commissioner (1999-2004), Managing Director of Crédit Lyonnais (1994-1999), Chief of Staff to European Commission President Jacques Delors and his Sherpa at the G7 (1985-1994), Deputy Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister (1983-1985) and to the Minister of the Economy and Finance (1981-1983).
Latest publications: Strange New World (Odile Jacob 2020), Où va le monde? (Odile Jacob 2018).