Meet the members of our team and Foundation Board, whose diverse expertise directly supports our activities.
Born in Lausanne, Jasmine Audemars is the great-granddaughter of Jules Louis Audemars, co-founder of Audemars Piguet. With a degree in economics and economic history, she began her career as a journalist, rising to become Editor-in-Chief of Le Journal de Genève, which would subsequently become Le Temps. Jasmine chaired the Audemars Piguet Board of Directors for 30 years, taking over from her father, Jacques Louis Audemars. Since 2022, she has been focusing all her energy on philanthropy, particularly in her role as Chair of the Audemars Piguet Foundations.
Bertrand Paris has a degree in the physics of materials and industrial management. He began his career in the automobile industry, before moving into the world of watchmaking and joining Audemars Piguet, where he has worked for over 20 years. His keen interest in sustainability led him to join the company’s Eco-Group and ESG Committee, which worked to ensure that the Manufacture des Forges (inaugurated in 2008) was the first industrial building in Switzerland to achieve Minergie-Eco certification. Bertrand also actively supported the implementation of Audemars Piguet’s responsible gold supply chain.
Eric Bouchet was born in Haute-Savoie to one of the three co-founders of the gardening chain Botanic. Passionate about technology, he studied electronic engineering and joined Alstom, where he co-led major rail projects that included the Eurostar. Now co-CEO of Botanic, he has contributed to some of the company’s landmark decisions, such as the withdrawal of pesticides and chemical products from its shelves in 2008. In addition to his professional activities, Eric is also Chairman of the Earthworm Foundation.
Didier Roguet is an ethnobotanist who devoted his entire career to working as a curator at the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva (CJBG), where he served on the Executive Board for over 20 years. In his various capacities, he set up a wealth of technical cooperation programmes in Latin America and West Africa. In 2021, Didier Roguet was named an Officer of the Order of Merit of National Education in Côte d’Ivoire for his involvement in the country’s environmental education policy through the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques (CSRS).