Born and raised in Côte d'Ivoire and of Swiss-German descent, Jean-Luc is a social entrepreneur and minister focused on urban transformation. After earning a degree in Education in Switzerland, traveling across Latin America, and living in an urban poor neighborhood in Mexico City and Zurich’s redlight district, he moved to Philadelphia in 1997 to pursue graduate studies. In 2002, he earned an MBA in International Economic Development and a Master of Divinity. He was ordained as a minister and began working at Geneva Global Inc., a philanthropy corporation, where he supervised a team of researchers and served as Latin American coordinator and consultant for dozens of ministries and nonprofit organizations. In 2005, Jean-Luc moved back to Mexico City with a vision to help transform fragile cities into SHALOM cities.