Jérôme Crettol

Peace Award for Diplotools Official Panoramai Prize 2025 Jérôme Crettol is an entrepreneur working at the intersection of diplomacy and technology. He is the founder and CEO of DiploTools, a Swiss company developing software that helps ministries of foreign affairs and international organizations integrate digitalisation, data analysis, and artificial intelligence into their work. Most recently, DiploTools has collaborated with members of the UN Security Council on applying AI to diplomatic processes, with the aim of strengthening missions’ capacity and narrowing the global digital divide. Earlier in his career, Jérôme served at Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York, an experience that shaped his commitment to building technologies designed specifically for international diplomacy. Anchored in the Swiss innovation ecosystem, DiploTools is incubated at EPFL and contributes to Switzerland’s role as a global hub for digital governance.