...is an editorial cartoonist.
He is also a curious blend of Swiss and Lebanese origins, born in Pakistan, raised in Singapore and in Switzerland, he lives now in Geneva after three years spent in New York.
He has an equal passion for World Affairs and dark bitter chocolate.

He draws a twice-weekly cartoon in the International Herald Tribune. Chappatte also works for the daily Le Temps, in Geneva, and the Sunday edition of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, in Zurich.

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In New York, he was an illustrator for The New York Times and created Rob the cybernaut, a comic strip published in Newsweek International.Publications include: Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, Courrier International, Khaleej Times.

His best cartoons published in the Herald Tribune have been collected in the cartoon books Globalized in February 2007,and Another World in 2004. Besides that, six collections of his political cartoons, as well as a travel diary made during a four-month trip to South America were published in French.

Chappatte interviews: The World (BBC), World Radio Switzerland, Swiss News, IHT, Swissinfo, CNN - In German: DRS Radio, DRS TV, Du, Migros Magazin, SZ