About us

Executive Director and Coordinators :

Sonja L. Hanachi
Legal and Administration Coordinator – Executive Director

Head of the Foundation, Ms. Hanachi has a 20 years experience in key positions at the UN in Geneva and is also President and an active member of the incorporator of the International Foundation for the Children of the World, a Foundation dedicated to education of children. Ms. Hanachi will act as Executive Director to the WHIB, and will be in charge of overall legal, administrative matters and financial issues, as well as advocacy within WHIB. She will implement the main networking strategies and be responsible for the overall contacts to the donors and sponsors. As Executive Director, she will report to the Council of the Foundation.

He is the President of the AME, the Association Multimedia Emploi in France, and has been involved since more than a decade in educational matters, through international cooperation especially in educational and multimedia affairs. Mr. Adoue is also member of the Board of International Federation of Multimedia Associations: FIAM (ECOSOC) and Coordinator for FIAM of educational affairs. He is also Coordinator of the French Multimedia Associations Convention. Mr. Adoue will act as IT/Web and Public Technical Relations Coordinator within WHIB. He will be responsible for coordinating all technical supports as well as to continuously upgrading the WHIB Web site.

Pierre-Michel Virot.
Senior photographer, Senior Photo Library, WHIB Project Coordinator.

He has two decades of experience as a professional photographer; he is representing Action Press at the UN and is a member of the editorial board of the UN Special magazine. He is the former main photographer of the World Health Organization and Manager of the WHO digital photo-library. He has been awarded with 2 pictures at the 4th Swiss Professional Award (1999). He participated in several exhibitions in France and Switzerland as well as exhibitions for WHO in Geneva, Ethiopia, India and China. His pictures have been published throughout the world. Mr. Virot will act as the Senior Photographer and Senior Photo Library Coordinator. He will be in charge of all associated photographers and affiliated entities. He will be responsible for the content of the WHIB image library and in charge of the overall sustained development of image acquisitions.