Aurélie Salvaire

Aurélie Salvaire is a French author and social entrepreneur passionate about gender and narratives.

She has been working for the past 10 years in the social innovation field, collaborating with Oxfam, Ashoka, Unreasonable Institute and Impact Hub.

From 2012 to 2015, she curated different TEDx events and especially TEDxBarcelonaWomen and coached since hundreds of international speakers.

In 2012, she founded The A Factor which has run storytelling workshops, innovation tours and inspiring events in places as diverse as Beirut or Nairobi. 

She is also a very active speaker and trainer, promoting greater diversity and shedding light on lingering stereotypes through her platform Shiftbalance.

She recently shot a 28 minutes documentary on masculinity in Pakistan called Maard Ban. Be a man. and published two books, a travel chronicles in French and an anthology of gender equity solutions in English.

She is currently running a booktour all around the world to engage young citizens to become gender activists.