Léonard Gianadda
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Léonard Gianadda (23 August 1935 – 3 December 2023) was a Swiss journalist (TSR), engineer, and philanthropist. He was the founder and president of the Fondation Pierre Gianadda.
Born in Martigny in 1935, Gianadda got his Engineering diploma in 1961 at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. From 1961, Gianadda ran his own engineering agency and built more than a thousand apartments in Martigny. He founded the Fondation Pierre Gianadda in 1978 after his brother Pierre died in 1976.[1]
Gianadda died of bone cancer on 3 December 2023, at the age of 88.[2]