Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (abbreviated IHEID), also known as the Geneva Graduate Institute, is a government-accredited postgraduate institution of higher education located in Geneva, Switzerland.
The institution counts one UN secretary-general (Kofi Annan), seven Nobel Prize recipients, one Pulitzer Prize winner, and numerous ambassadors, foreign ministers, and heads of state among its alumni and faculty. Founded by two senior League of Nations officials, the Graduate Institute maintains strong links with that international organisation's successor, the United Nations, and many alumni have gone on to work at U.N. agencies.
Overview
Founded in 1927, the Graduate Institute is continental Europe's oldest school of international relations and the world's first graduate institute dedicated solely to the study of international affairs. It offered one of the first doctoral programmes in international relations in the world.
Today the school enrolls close to a thousand postgraduate students from over 100 countries. Foreign students make up nearly 90% of the student body and the school is officially a bilingual English-French institution, although the majority of classes are in English. With Maison de la Paix acting as its primary seat of learning, the Institute's campuses are located blocks from the United Nations Office at Geneva, International Labour Organization, World Trade Organization, World Health Organization, International Committee of the Red Cross, World Intellectual Property Organization and many other international organisations.
It runs joint degree programmes with universities such as Smith College and Yale University, and is Harvard Kennedy School's only partner institution to co-deliver double degrees. The school is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), a group of schools that specialize in public policy, public administration, and international affairs.
History
Founding and early years
The Graduate Institute of International Studies was co-founded in 1927 by two scholar-diplomats working for the League of Nations Geneva secretariat: the Swiss William Rappard, director of the Mandates Section, and the Frenchman Paul Mantoux, director of the Political Section. A bilingual institution like the League, it was to train personnel for the nascent international organisation. Its co-founder, Rappard, served as director from 1928 to 1955.
The Institute's original mandate was based on a close working relationship with both the League of Nations and the International Labour Organization. It was agreed that in exchange for training staff and delegates, the Institute would receive intellectual resources and diplomatic expertise (guest lecturers, etc.) from the aforementioned organisations. According to its statutes, the Graduate Institute was "an institution intended to provide students of all nations the means of undertaking and pursuing international studies, most notably of a historic, judicial, economic, political and social nature."
In the late 1920s and 1930s, summer schools of international relations held at the Graduate Institute became a must-go for students of international relations worldwide, particulary American ones. The course, which covered general introductions to international relations, international law, and economic relations were known as the Geneva School of International Studies. Organized by Oxford University international relations professor Alfred Zimmern, they would be attended by hundreds of students each year. The initiative that begun in 1923 operated in parallel with the early planning for the launch of the Graduate Institute and the experience acquired by the former helped to shape the latter. The 'Geneva Schools' or 'Zimmern Schools', as they became known, were taught by scholars like Louis Eisenmann, Ernst Jäckh, Paul Mantoux, and Arnold J. Toynbee alongside a variety of 'public men' such as Edvard Beneš, Lord David Cecil, Paul Hymans, Fridtjof Nansen, and Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter. The last Geneva School was held in 1939.
World War II
The Graduate Institute managed to attract a number of eminent faculty and lecturers, particularly from countries mired in oppressive Nazi regimes, e.g., and Georges Scelle for law, Maurice Bourquin for diplomatic history, and the rising young Swiss jurist, Paul Guggenheim. Subsequently, more noted scholars would join the institute's faculty. Hans Kelsen, the well-known theorist and philosopher of law, Guglielmo Ferrero, Italian historian, and Carl Burckhardt, scholar and diplomat all called the Graduate Institute home. Other arrivals, similarly seeking refuge from dictatorships, included the eminent free market economy historian, Ludwig von Mises, and another economist, Wilhelm Ropke, who greatly influenced German postwar liberal economic policy as well as the development of the theory of a social market system.
In its early years, the Graduate Institute had developed a system whereby cours temporaires were given by prominent intellectuals on a week, semester, or yearlong basis. These cours temporaires were the intellectual showcase of the institute, attracting such names as Raymond Aron, René Cassin, Luigi Einaudi, John Kenneth Galbraith, G. P. Gooch, Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich von Hayek, Hersch Lauterpacht, Lord McNair, Gunnar Myrdal, Harold Nicolson, Philip Noel Baker, Pierre Renouvin, Lionel Robbins, Jean-Rodolphe de Salis, Harold Laski, Eric Voegelin, Count Carlo Sforza, Jacob Viner, Quincy Wright and Martin Wight.
Expansion
For a period of almost thirty years (1927–1954) the school was funded predominantly through the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. Since then the canton of Geneva and the Swiss Federal Council bear most of the costs associated with the institute. This transfer of financial responsibility coincided with the 1955 arrival of William Rappard's successor as director of the institute, Lausanne historian Jacques Freymond. Freymond inaugurated a period of great expansion, increasing the range of subjects taught and the number of both students and faculty, a process that continued well after his retirement in 1978. Under Freymond's tenure, the Graduate Institute hosted many international colloquia that discussed preconditions for East–West negotiations, relations with China and its rising influence in world affairs, European integration, techniques and results of politico-socioeconomic forecasting (the famous early Club of Rome reports, and the Futuribles project led by Bertrand de Jouvenel), the causes and possible antidotes to terrorism, Pugwash Conference concerns and much more. Freymond's term also saw many landmark publications, including the Treatise on international law by Professor Paul Guggenheim and the six-volume compilation of historical documents relating to the Communist International.
Despite its small size - before the 1980s the faculty never exceeded 25 members, the Institute boasts four faculty members who have received Nobel Prizes for economics – Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek, Maurice Allais, and Robert Mundell. Three alumni have been Nobel laureates.
Merger and renaming
In 2008, the Graduate Institute of International Studies absorbed the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (abbreviated IUED), a smaller postgraduate institution also based in Geneva and founded in 1961. To reflect its new and broader mission, the school was renamed Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
The history of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies also involves Freymond, who founded the institution in 1961 as the Institut Africain de Genève, or African Institute of Geneva. It was among the pioneer institutions in Europe to develop the scholarly field of sustainable development. The school was also known for the critical view of many of its professors on development aid, as well as for its journal, the Cahiers de l'IUED.
Academics
Admission to the Graduate Institute's study programmes is highly competitive, with only 14% of applicants attending the Graduate Institute in 2014. The Institute awards its own degrees. It does not award undergraduate degrees.
As a small institution offering exclusively master's and PhD programmes, the Institute does not participate in university rankings that rank large universities. However, It has been ranked by a handful of rankings for specialized universities. In Foreign Policy'''s 2014 Inside the Ivory Tower ranking of best international relations schools in the world, the Graduate Institute's master's program was ranked 24th among Master's Programs for Policy Career in International Relations. It ranked 29th in 2018. In 2012, The Graduate Institute was listed among the Foreign Policy Association's "Top 50 International Affairs Graduate Programs."
The LL.M. in international dispute settlement, offered jointly with the University of Geneva by the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement, was ranked second worldwide according to a 2012 survey of law firms conducted by the Global Arbitration Review. This same LL.M. also consistently featured in the top 10 LL.M. for alternative dispute resolution by the specialised website LL.M.-guide. The Graduate Institute's LL.M. in international law also featured in the top 10 LL.M. for public international law compiled by LLM-guide. The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights' LL.M. in international humanitarian law and human rights—a joint programme between the Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva—also featured in LLM-guide's top 10 LL.M. programmes for human rights law.
Degree programmes
Admission to the Graduate Institute's study programmes is highly competitive.
MINT
The MINT (Master of Arts in International and Development Studies) is an intensive two-year interdisciplinary master programme which begins with a rigorous foundation in quantitative and qualitative methods and in all the disciplines of the Institute. In addition to their coursework, students must typically complete a capstone applied research project, two skills workshops, and a thesis between 15,000 and 25,000 words. Students can choose to specialize in one of seven thematic tracks: Sustainable Trade and Finance; Conflict, Peace and Security; Environment and Sustainability; Gender, Race and Diversity; Global Health; Human Rights and Humanitarianism; and Mobilities, Migrations and Boundaries.
Disciplinary masters
An advanced disciplinary two-year master's programme (MA/MPhil/LLM Res equivalent) is offered by each of the Graduate Institute's five academic departments: Anthropology & Sociology, International Economics, International History & Politics, International Law, and International Relations & Political Science. In general, the disciplinary programme includes taught coursework and workshops that prepare students for conducting research and writing their master's thesis during their final semester.
As regards the law programme, the first year is substantively equivalent to an LL.M, whereas the second year is designed to prepare students for studies at the doctoral level. The school also offers a one-year LL.M in international law.
In addition, a number of students transition during the MPhil to PhD status by way of the Fast Track programme.
MAS
The MAS (Master of Advanced Studies) in Sustainable Finance and Development is a one-year master's programme offered by the Graduate Institute's department of International Economics. It combines training in the empirical and analytical tools required for employment in the fields of ESG and impact investing.
Executive masters
Executive education programmes include masters and certificates in international law, international relations, international negotiation and policy-making, and development policies and practices.
PhD
PhD (Doctorate) students specialize in one disciplinary field. PhD candidates who wish to carry out bi-disciplinary research choose a main discipline (a major) and a second discipline (a minor).
Joint and concurrent degrees
The Graduate Institute has established joint or dual degree programmes with: the MPA programme at Harvard Kennedy School; the LLM in Global Health Law programme at the Georgetown University Law Center; the MS program in global health at the Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva; the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro; the BA programmes at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs; Smith College; Wellesley College; Mount Holyoke College; Seton Hall University; Colgate University; China Foreign Affairs University; Sophia University; Peking University and the University of Hong Kong.
Campus
The Campus de la paix is a network of buildings extending from Place des Nations (the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva) to the shores of Lake Geneva, spanning two public parks – Parc Barton and Parc Moynier.
Maison de la paix
The Graduate Institute's main campus is the Maison de la paix (literally "House of Peace"), which opened in 2013. The Maison de la Paix is a 38,000 meter-square glass building distributed into six connected sections. It contains the Davis Library, which holds 350,000 books about social sciences, journals and annual publications, making it one of Europe's richest libraries in the fields of development and international relations. It is named after two Institute alumni—Ambassador Shelby Cullom Davis and his wife Kathryn Davis, following the Davis' $10 million donation to the institute.
The neighboring Picciotto Student Residence was completed in 2012 and provides 135 apartments for students and visiting professors. Another, larger student residence, the Grand Morillon Student Residence, opened in 2021. Japanese architect Kengo Kuma designed the 680-bed student housing building.
In addition to serving as the institute's main campus, the Maison de la paix also houses policy centres and advocacy groups with close ties to the Institute such as the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, Interpeace, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Historic villas
Another section of the campus are two historic villas situated by Lake Geneva, Villa Barton and Villa Moynier. Villa Barton served as the institute's main campus for most of the school's history. It now mostly houses administrative staff. Villa Moynier, created in 2001 and which opened in October 2009, houses the Institute-based Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement. The building holds a symbolic significance as it was originally owned by Gustave Moynier, co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and subsequently used by the League of Nations and as the headquarters of the ICRC between 1933 and 1946.
Research
Overview
The institute's research activities are conducted both at fundamental and applied levels with the objective of bringing analysis to international actors, private or public, of main contemporary issues. These research activities are conducted by the faculty of the institute, as part of their individual work, or by interdisciplinary teams within centres and programmes whose activity focus on these main fields: Conflict, security, and peacebuilding; Development policies and practices; Culture, religion, and identity; Dispute settlement; Environment and natural resources; Finance and development; Gender; Globalisation; Governance; Humanitarian action; Migration and refugees; Non-state actors and civil society; Rural development; Trade, regionalism, and integration.
Furthermore, the Graduate Institute is home to the Curt Gasteyger Chair in International Security and Conflict Studies, the André Hoffmann Chair in Environmental Economics, the Pictet Chair in Finance and Development, the UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education Policy, and the Claude Ségré Chair on Conservation and Development.
Research centres
The centres of the Institute distribute analysis and research that contributes to the analysis of international organisations headquartered in Geneva:
The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding is for research in the areas of conflict analysis, peacebuilding, and the complex relationships between security and development.
The Centre for International Environmental Studies was established in 2010 for the purpose of developing political, legal and economic discourse on problems related to the global environment.
The Centre for Trade and Economic Integration brings together the research activities of eminent professors of economics, law and political science in the area of trade, economic integration and globalization. The Centre provides a forum for discussion and dialogue between the global research community, including the institute's student body and research centres in the developing world, and the international business community, as well as international organisations and NGOs.
The Centre for Finance and Development's research deals with finance and development at three levels: international finance, and development finance in particular, including the role played by the international financial institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank; financial development, including banking and financial sector development in emerging and developing countries, both from contemporary and historical perspectives; microeconomics of finance and development.
The Global Governance Centre provides a forum for scholars of governance and international organisations to interact with practitioners from the policy world to analyse global governance arrangements across a variety of issues.
The Global Health Centre's activities focus on two pillars, namely global health governance and global health diplomacy.
The Global Migration Centre focus on the transnational dimensions of migration and its interdisciplinary orientation. It combines inputs from lawyers, political scientists, economists, historians, anthropologists and sociologists.
The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy seeks to understand what ails democracies worldwide in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.
The Gender Centre produces research on the workings of gender in development and international relations and serves as a channel for the dissemination of such knowledge in both the anglophone and the francophone worlds.
The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project that serves as the principal international source of public information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence and as a resource for governments, policy-makers, researchers, and activists.
Joint centres
The Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva have three joint centers:
Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement
Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action
Publications Journal of International Dispute Settlement – Established by the Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva in 2010, the JIDS is dedicated to international law with commercial, economic and financial implications. It is published by Oxford University Press.International Development Policy – A peer-reviewed e-journal that promotes cutting-edge research and policy debates on global development.European Journal of Development Research – A co-publication of the Graduate Institute and the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes with a multi-disciplinary focus.Medicine Anthropology Theory – An open-access journal that publishes scholarly articles, essays, reviews, and reports related to medical anthropology and science and technology studies.Relations internationales (fr) – Relations Internationales publishes research on international relations history ranging from the end of the 19th century to recent history.
Organisation
Leadership
The founding directors of the Graduate Institute of International Studies were Paul Mantoux (1927-1951) and William Rappard (1928-1955). The school was then headed by Jacques Freymond (1955-1978), Christian Dominicé (1978-1984), Lucius Caflisch (1984-1990), Alexandre Swoboda (1990-1998), Peter Tschopp (1998-2002), Jean-Michel Jacquet (2002-2004) and Philippe Burrin (2004-2020). Its current director is Marie-Laure Salles.
Legal status
The Graduate Institute is constituted as a Swiss private law foundation, Fondation pour les hautes études internationales et du développement, sharing a convention with the University of Geneva. This is a particular organisational form, because the Graduate Institute is constituted as a foundation of private law fulfilling a public purpose. In addition, the political responsibility for the Institute shared between the Swiss Confederation and the canton of Geneva. Usually in Switzerland, it is the responsibility of the cantons to run public universities, except for the Federal Institutes of Technology (ETHZ and EPFL). The Graduate Institute is therefore something like a hybrid institution, in-between the two standard categories.
Foundation Board
The Foundation Board is the administrative body of the Institute. It assembles academics, politicians, people of public life and practitioners. It includes among others: Carlos Lopes, currently UN under secretary general and executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Julia Marton-Lefèvre (former director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature), (journalist), and Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, (a former World Bank vice president).
International relations
Partnerships
The Graduate Institute has exchange partnerships with the following institutions internationally:
United States: Boston University, School of Law, George Washington University, Elliott School, Harvard Law School, Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, University of Michigan, Law School, Yale University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, American University, School of International Service, Northwestern University
Canada: Munk School, Toronto
Indonesia: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Khazakstan: KIMEP University
South Korea: Seoul National University, Graduate School of International Studies
Singapore: Singapore National University, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Malaysia: University of Malaya
Japan: Waseda University, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Sophia University
China: Fudan University, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Peking University, School of International Studies, University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Social Sciences, China Foreign Affairs University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Turkey: Boğaziçi University
Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico
Peru: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru
Brazil: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Colombia: Institute of International Relations, Universidad de Los Andes
Italy: European University Institute, Università Bocconi, LUISS – Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies
Germany: Hertie School of Governance
France: Sciences Po
Switzerland: University of St. Gallen, Global Health Institute, University of Geneva, Centre for Comparative and International Studies
Austria: Central European University
Egypt: American University, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Cairo
South Africa: Stellenbosch University
Ghana: University of Ghana
Australia: Melbourne School of Government, the University of Melbourne
Networks
The Graduate Institute is an active member of the following associations and academic networks:
APSIA – Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs: academic institutions specialising in international relations and international public policy are represented among APSIA's thirty-odd members.
European University Association: Represents and supports more than 850 institutions of higher education in 46 countries, providing them with a forum for cooperation and exchange of information on higher education and research policies.
Europaeum: Created at the initiative of the University of Oxford, the Europaeum is composed of ten leading European institutions of higher education and research.
European Consortium for Political Research: The ECPR is an independent scholarly association that supports the training, research and cross-national cooperation of many thousands of academics and graduate students specialising in political science and all its sub-disciplines.
European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes: The EADI is the largest existing network of research and training institutes active in the field of development studies.
Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie: The AUF supports the build-up a French-language research area between French-speaking universities. The institute is one of 536 members belonging to the AUF and takes part in its exchange programmes in the fields of teaching and research.
Swiss University Conference: The SUC is a governmental organisation tasked with accrediting officially recognized Swiss universities.
Academic awards and prizes conferred
The Paul Guggenheim Prize in International Law was created in 1981 and is awarded to young practitioners of international law on a biannual basis. The Edgar de Picciotto International Prize is awarded every two years and worth 100,000 Swiss Francs. It rewards an internationally renowned academic whose research has contributed to enhancing the understanding of global challenges and whose work has influenced policy-makers.
Notable alumni
The Graduate Institute has more than 24,000 alumni working around the world. Notable alumni and faculty include one UN secretary-general (Kofi Annan), seven Nobel Prize recipients, one Pulitzer Prize winner, and numerous ambassadors, foreign ministers, and heads of state.
Government and politics
Micheline Calmy-Rey – former president of Switzerland
Kurt Furgler – former president of Switzerland
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg – monarchial head of state of Luxembourg
Michel Kafando – interim president of Burkina Faso
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete – fourth president of Tanzania
Alpha Oumar Konaré – ex-president of Mali
Hans-Gert Pöttering – former president of the European Parliament
Nazim al-Qudsi – former president of Syria
International organizations
Kofi Annan – former secretary-general of the United Nations and 2001 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Arthur Dunkel – director-general of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1980–1993
Mohamed ElBaradei – director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Patricia Espinosa – head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Rafael Grossi – director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Edvard Hambro – 25th president of the United Nations General Assembly
Kamil Idris – director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization
C. Wilfred Jenks – director-general of the International Labour Organization, 1970–1973
Jakob Kellenberger – president of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Pierre Krähenbühl – Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Olivier Long – director-general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1968–1980
Jacques Moreillon – ex-director general of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Cornelio Sommaruga – former president of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Academia
Andrew W. Cordier – former president of Columbia University, 1968–1970
Hernando de Soto (economist) – Peruvian economist and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy
Rüdiger Dornbusch – international economics professor at MIT
Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber – political scientist at Princeton University, expert on self-determination
Ernst Engelberg – professor at Leipzig University and historian of Otto von Bismarck
Saul Friedländer – historian at UCLA, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction recipient
Leonid Hurwicz – 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics recipient
Hans Joachim Morgenthau – political scientist of international relations at the University of Chicago
Ivan L. Rudnytsky – noted historian of Ukrainian socio-political thought, professor at the American University
Jessica L.P. Weeks – noted scholar and Chair, Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Law
Georges Abi-Saab – judge at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Marc Bossuyt – member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, president of the Belgian Constitutional Court
Erik Møse – former president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 2003–2007
Max Sørensen – judge at the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights
Abdulqawi Yusuf – ex-president of the International Court of Justice
Business
Philipp Hildebrand – vice-president of BlackRock
Brad Smith – president of Microsoft
Arts
Carlos Fuentes – Mexican novelist
Faculty
Notable former faculty
Georges Abi-Saab, international law specialist, chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization
Maurice Allais, economist and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Richard Baldwin, international trade economist who has been called called "one of the most important thinkers in this era of global disruption"
Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian, diplomat, and president of the ICRC
Kemal Dervis, professor of economics, former head of the United Nations Development Programme and former minister of economic affairs of Turkey
Pierre-Marie Dupuy, French jurist, expert of international arbitration
Guglielmo Ferrero, Italian historian of the French Revolution and Napoleon
Saul Friedländer, Israeli historian of Germany and Jewish history at UCLA, 2008 Pulitzer Prize recipient
Emmanuel Gaillard, leading authority on international commercial arbitration
Paul Guggenheim, Swiss international jurist
Harry Gordon Johnson, Canadian economist who made many contributions to the development of Hecksher-Ohlin theory
Friedrich von Hayek, prominent Austrian school economist, co-recipient of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Hans Kelsen, noted international jurist and legal philosopher
Olivier Long, Swiss international law specialist and former director-general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1968–80)
Theodor Meron, former president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Ludwig von Mises, prominent Austrian school economist, philosopher, and classical liberal
Robert Mundell, Canadian international economist and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and co-recipient of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Shalini Randeria, American-born Indian anthropologist, Central European University's sixth president and rector
Wilhelm Röpke, international economist and spiritual father of the German social market economy
Jacob Viner, Canadian international economics and early member of the Chicago School of Economics
Jean Ziegler, Swiss sociologist, author and public intellectual
Current faculty
William M. Adams, Claudio Segré Chair of Conservation and Development
Jean-Louis Arcand, professor of international economics, director of the Centre for Finance and Development
Jean-François Bayart, political scientist specializing in sub-Saharan Africa
Thomas J. Biersteker, notable constructivism scholar, expert on international sanctions and former director of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University
Gilles Carbonnier, professor of development economics and vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Andrew Clapham, professor of international law and former adviser on international humanitarian law to Sergio Vieira de Mello
Jean d'Aspremont, visiting professor of international law
Tim Flannery, Segré Foundation Distinguished Visiting professor, Australian of the Year 2007, mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and chief commissioner of the Federal Climate Commission
Ilona Kickbusch, adjunct professor, leading thinker in the fields of health promotion and global health
Marcelo Kohen, professor of international law, secretary-general of the Institut de Droit International
Nico Krisch, professor of international law specializing in constitutional theory, and global governance
Keith Krause, professor of international relations, director of the Small Arms Survey
Jussi Hanhimäki, professor of international history, recipient of the 2002 Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Susanna Hecht, professor of international history whose early work on the deforestation of the Amazon led to the founding of the subfield of political ecology
Anna Leander, professor of international relations known for her work in critical security studies and international political sociology
Giacomo Luciani, scholar on the geopolitics of energy
Peter Maurer, senior distinguished fellow and president of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, professor of international history and politics, political violence and international security specialist
Alessandro Monsutti, professor of anthropology and sociology
Janne Nijman, professor of history and theory of international law
Ugo Panizza, Pictet Professor of Development and Finance
Gita Steiner-Khamsi, UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education Policy
Timothy Swanson, André Hoffmann Professor of Environmental Economics
Martina Viarengo, associate professor of economics specializing in comparative education policy and international migration
Jorge E. Viñuales, adjunct professor of environmental law and Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge
Beatrice Weder di Mauro, professor of international macroeconomics and president of the Centre for Economic Policy Research
Charles Wyplosz, professor of international economics, regular columnist in the Financial Times, Le Monde, Libération, Le Figaro, Finanz und Wirtschaft, and Handelsblatt References
Bibliography The Graduate Institute of International Studies Geneva: 75 years of service towards peace through learning and research in the field of international relations'', The Graduate Institute, 2002.
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