Faculty and Experts

PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE

Liliana B. Andonova (M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University) is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

She has been Assistant Professor in Government and Environmental Studies at Colby College, USA, Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Italy, and fellow at the Earth Institute of Columbia University, USA. Andonova’s book Transnational Politics of the Environment: EU Integration and Environmental Policy in Eastern Europe was published by MIT Press in 2004. Other publications include articles on international cooperation, institutions, and on environmental politics in journals such as Global Governance, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Perspective, and Comparative Political Studies. Her current research focuses on international organisations and public-private partnerships, transnational governance, and climate cooperation. Recent activities include: elected member of the Executive Committee of the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association; and participation in the US National Academy of Sciences' initiative on public-private partnerships for sustainability.

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL LAW

Professor Bianchi has been a member of the Graduate Institute faculty since 2002. His publications range from international human rights, international economic law, the law of jurisdiction and jurisdictional immunities, to international environmental law, state responsibility and the enforcement of international law norms against terrorism. He is co-director of the Democracy and Terrorism project sponsored by the Société académique de Genève, which recently published Counterterrorism: Democracy’s Challenges (Hart, June 2008).

PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE

Thomas Biersteker is the first holder of the Curt Gasteyger Chair in International Security and Conflict Studies, established thanks to the support of the APESI to honour Professor Gasteyger, HEI professor emeritus. The author/editor of nine books, including State Sovereignty as Social Construct, The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance, and Countering the Financing of Terrorism, Biersteker’s research focuses primarily on international relations theory and economic aspects of contemporary global security issues. His recent activities include work with the UN Secretariat and the governments of Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany on the design of targeted sanctions.

He was previously Professor of Political Science at Brown University where he served for many years as Director of the Watson Institute for International Studies. He has also taught at Yale University and at the University of Southern California. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, and a Fellow of the Club of Madrid. 

PROFESSOR, DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Born in 1957, Italian and Swiss citizen, he graduated in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Torino (Italy), obtained a master in Development Studies from the IUED of Geneva, a diploma in Arabic language from the International Language Institute (Cairo), and got his PhD in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. Besides the IUED, he has been working for the CNRS at the Maison de l’Orient of the University of Lyon II (1984-1992), has been the director of the CERMOC in Amman (Centre d’études et de recherches sur le Moyen-Orient contemporain) a French research centre in social sciences based in Jordan (from 1994 to 1999), and research director of the IUED (2000 to 2003). He has also been invited professor at the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bologna (Italy).
Since 1981, his main geographical area of fieldwork has been the Near East, with a particular focus on Jordan and Palestine, where he has lived for several years. Three main research topics have successively shaped his work: tribes, nationalism, development policies and State-building; refugees, humanitarian policies and Palestinian identity in the Near East; and the role of international aid in conflict and post-conflict contexts. From 2000 to 2006 he has been directing a team of international researchers working on a project (funded by the SDC and six UN agencies) for monitoring the impact of international aid on the civilian population of the Palestinian Territories. From 2004 to 2007 he has also been directing a huge survey for UNRWA, on the socio-economic conditions of the 4’500’000 Palestinian refugees registered with the UN and living in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank. In 2008, he co-founded the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peace at the Graduate Institute. His research currently focuses on peace-building and reconciliation policies in the Middle East. 

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL LAW

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes is Professor of international law and Head of the Department of Public International Law and International Organisation at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva (Switzerland). She is a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute. Between 1995 and 1999, she was Senior Counsel with the Legal Department of the World Bank. A consultant and a member of groups of experts with various international organisations, including the World Bank, WHO, UNDP and ILO. Recent publications include: Freshwater and International Economic Law, (with E. Brown Weiss and N. Bernasconi-Osterwalder (eds.)), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.

PhD, LECTURER IN HUMAN RIGHTS, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Dr. Başak Çali is Lecturer in Human Rights at UCL's Department of Political Science. She was educated at the University of Ankara and University of Essex, where she completed a doctorate on conceptions of change in international law.

Dr Çali is currently engaged as the principal investigator of a three-year ESRC-funded research project on the legitimacy and authority of supranational human rights courts - with particular focus on the European Court of Human Rights. Those interested in discovering more are invited to visit the project website where updated working papers and research output can be found and downloaded. Başak's further research interests are the theories of international relations, with particular reference to international law and institutions, international human rights standards, international peacekeeping, development and multi-disciplinary human rights research methodology. In addition, she is working on research relating to interpretation and international law and establishing jurisdiction for states acting outside of their territory. Başak is also the editor of a textbook entitled International Law for International Relations to be published by Oxford University Press in 2009.
Dr. Çali has been made a fellow of the University of Essex Human Rights Centre and is an associate member of the Centre for Empirical Legal Studies at UCL. She has also been a visiting professor of human rights at the United Nations University of Peace in Costa Rica and the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She has acted as a peer-reviewer for a variety of journals, including Review of International Studies, Ethics and International Affairs, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy and European Human Rights Law Review.

PROFESSOR, DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Gilles Carbonnier, Ph.D Economics, has been a professor of international development cooperation at the Graduate Institute since March 2007. He is director of the Master in Development Studies. His areas of specialisation include the political economy of war, corporate responsibility, public-private partnerships and humanitarian action.
Over the past twenty years, Gilles Carbonnier has gained professional experience in the field of international trade negotiations, development cooperation, and humanitarian action. From 1999 to 2006, he was economic adviser and head of the private-sector relations team at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). He also coordinated the ICRC’s strategic planning exercise for 2006-2010. Before that, Gilles Carbonnier was in charge of market access negotiations during the Uruguay Round (GATT), and was involved in China’s and Vietnam’s accession to the WTO. Working for the Swiss government, he managed development cooperation programmes related to trade. 

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL LAW

Vincent Chetail is a member of the Faculty of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies since 2003. He holds a PhD from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and a Master in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, a LLM in Public Law and a LLM in Comparative Law from the University of Lyon III Jean Moulin.
Prof. Chetail is Research Director at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights as well as the Porgramme for the Study of Global Migration. He is also Adjunct Professor of International Law at Webster University and Visiting Professor in several Universities (Paris XI, Lyon III, Tunis and Benin).
Prof. Chetail is Editor-in-Chief of the Refugee Survey Quarterly (Oxford University Press) and co-director of the collections « Organisation internationale et relations internationales » and « Axes » at Bruylant (Brussels). He also regularly serves as a consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
His current field of research relates to the relationships between general international law and international migration law. His recent publications include Globalization, Migration and Human Rights: International Law under Review (Brussels: Bruylant, 2007). He currently heads the following research projects within the Programme for the Study of Global Migration: "Migration and International Organizations"; "Collection of International Migration Law Instruments"; "Human Rights of Migrants. Texts, Comments and Analysis of the Treaty-Bodies Practice".

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL LAW

Faculty member since 1987, Dr. Djajic previously held teaching appointments at Queen’s University and Columbia University, USA. His research and publications are mainly in the field of international economics, covering a broad range of topics including international migration, exchange rate and current account analysis, trade in exhaustible resources, macroeconomic implications of commercial policies, and the effects of transfers and foreign aid.

PhD, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Nick Drager - former Director of the Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights and Senior Adviser in the Strategy Unit, Office of the Director-General at the World Health Organization - is Honorary Professor, Global Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Professor of Public Policy and Global Health Diplomacy at McGill University; and Senior Fellow, Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. His work focuses on current and emerging public health issues related to globalization and health, especially global health diplomacy/governance, foreign policy and international trade and health. The policy related, research and training activities of the work programmes he leads are designed to contribute to enabling policy makers and public health practitioners to analyse and act on the broader determinants of health development, to better manage and shape the global and national policy environment for health and to place public health interests higher on the global development agenda to improve public health outcomes. He has extensive experience working with senior officials in developing countries worldwide and major multilateral and bilateral development agencies in health policy development, health sector analysis, strategic planning and resource mobilization and allocation decisions and in providing advice on health development negotiations and in conflict resolution. He has deep experience in global health diplomacy and high level negotiations on international health development issues. He has represented WHO at international events and conferences, serves as chair, keynote speaker at numerous international conferences; he lectures at Universities in Europe, North America and Asia; and is the author of numerous papers, editorials, and books in the area of global health and development. He has an M.D. from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Geneva. 

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS

 Jussi Hanhimäki is currently a professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and an editor of the journal Cold War History. In 2006 he was named Finland Distinguished Professor by the Academy of Finland. Over the past 14 years he has published widely on American foreign policy, transatlantic relations, and Cold War international history. His most recent books include The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); International History of the Twentieth Century (London: Routledge, 2003); and The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). He has also published articles and reviews in such journals as Diplomatic History, Diplomacy and Statecraft, The International History Review, and Relations Internationales.
Professor Hanhimäki recently completed a book on the United Nations for Oxford University Press (United Nations: A Very Short Introduction, 2008) and has published several essays on the détente process in the 1970s. As an associate of the Cold War Studies Center of the London School of Economics, he participates in the ‘Decentering the Cold War’ program that seeks to bring together research that challenges the centrality of the United States and the Soviet Union in the international system.
During the academic year 2006-2007, Professor Hanhimäki was the overall Coordinator of a joint IUHEI/UNHCR archival project (UNHCR and the Global Cold War, 1971-1984) which aimed at processing, referencing and making available for research the UNHCR headquarters’ archives for the period 1971-1984.
In January 2008 Professor Hanhimäki became the Director of the newly created Program for the Study of Global Migration. He also serves in the Editorial Board of the Refugee Survey Quarterly and heads the historical project "UNHCR and the Globalization of Refugee Issues, 1951-1989".

PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE

Urs Luterbacher has been Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies since 1973. He has worked on problems of international conflict and cooperation and international environmental problems using formal models and game theory. He is currently involved in an international research project concerned with the peaceful allocation and distribution of fresh water resources in the Middle East. He has completed a book The International Politics of Climate Change (co-authored with Detlef Sprinz) which was published by MIT Press in 2001.

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS

PhD from the Graduate Institute (HEI), Davide Rodogno was visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics (2002-04), research fellow at the IHTP in Paris (2004-05), RCUK academic fellow at the School of History – University of St Andrews since 2005, and visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute (HEI 2005-06). Since 2008, he is Professor with a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Prof. boursier) and leads a research project on the history of humanitarian international associations during the nineteenth and twentieth century (1850-1950). He has published his first monograph in Italian (Il Nuovo Ordine Mediterraneo, Bollati Boringhieri, 2003) and English, (Fascism’s European Empire, CUP, 2006) and is completing a second monograph whose tentative title is: Against Massacre: the emergence of the concept and international practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century (1815-1914).

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL LAW

Professor Viñuales joined the Institute's Law Faculty in 2009. He is also Counsel with the law firm Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, Geneva, as well as the Executive Director of the Latin American Society of International Law. He is currently active both as an academic and a practitioner in the fields of international environmental law and natural resources as well as international investment law and arbitration. Before joining the Institute, he was a full-time practitioner specializing in international investment law. He worked on many cases under ICSID, UNCITRAL, PCA, ICC or LCIA rules, including several high profile inter-State or investor-State disputes. He also served as consultant or provided advice on different matters of international law to companies, governments, international organizations or major NGOs. Professor Viñuales was educated in France (Doctorat - Sciences Po Paris), the United States (LL.M. - Harvard Law School), Switzerland (D.E.A./licence in international relations - HEI; lic. iur. - University of Fribourg; D.E.A./licence in political science - University of Geneva), and Argentina (Abogado – UNICEN). He is a member of the New York and Buenos Aires Bars as well as of numerous professional and academic organizations, including the London Court of International Arbitration, the Swiss Arbitration Association, the Spanish Arbitration Committee, the European Society of International Law, the Société française pour le droit international, the Argentine Centre for International Studies, the Harvard Clubs of Switzerland and Europe, the Sciences Po Alumni Association, the HEI Alumni Association, and others. He is also a former board member of Harvard's International Law Society.