Daphne Rozat holds a master's degree in international relations from the Institute of International Relations at the University of Strasbourg. She began her professional career working for various film festivals and audiovisual markets in France, such as FIPA, the Luchon International Television Festival and Sunny Side of the Doc. Upon arriving in Switzerland, she launched the programming for the new screens at the Tous Ecrans Festival (now GIFF), distributed socially conscious documentaries in Swiss cinemas, and has been responsible for programming documentaries for the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, which takes place every year in Geneva at the same time as the UN Human Rights Council, for the past 17 years.