Speaker Bio
Patrick Chappatte is an editorial cartoonist for The New York Times. Formerly, he had been with The International Herald Tribune since 2001. He won the Overseas Press Club of America’s Thomas Nast Award for best cartoons on international affairs in 2011 and 2015.
In the last 20 years, Mr. Chappatte has been exploring comics journalism. His latest project, with his journalist wife Anne-Frédérique Widmann, is a five-part graphic journalism series, “Inside Death Row” published by The New York Times website in May 2016.
Through a series of collaborative initiatives called “Crossed Pens,” Mr. Chappatte gathers editorial cartoonists in conflict-ridden countries to foster a dialogue on human rights through cartoons. He also co-founded the Cartooning for Peace Foundation” in Geneva, whose honorary chairman is Kofi Annan.
Born in 1967 in Pakistan to a Lebanese mother and Swiss father, and raised in Singapore and Geneva, Mr. Chappatte has lived in New York and Los Angeles and is now based in Geneva.
In the last 20 years, Mr. Chappatte has been exploring comics journalism. His latest project, with his journalist wife Anne-Frédérique Widmann, is a five-part graphic journalism series, “Inside Death Row” published by The New York Times website in May 2016.
Through a series of collaborative initiatives called “Crossed Pens,” Mr. Chappatte gathers editorial cartoonists in conflict-ridden countries to foster a dialogue on human rights through cartoons. He also co-founded the Cartooning for Peace Foundation” in Geneva, whose honorary chairman is Kofi Annan.
Born in 1967 in Pakistan to a Lebanese mother and Swiss father, and raised in Singapore and Geneva, Mr. Chappatte has lived in New York and Los Angeles and is now based in Geneva.
Full Name
Patrick Chappatte
