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, 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.

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 the Deputy-Director of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) and editor-in-chef of the International Development Policy Series. 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".

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

Keith Krause is Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, Director of its Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding Programme, and Director of the Small Arms Survey, an internationally-recognised research centre NGO he founded in 2001.
The Small Arms Survey has produces annual volumes on issues of small arms proliferation, stockpiles, transfers, misuse and effects, as well as numerous field-based and issue-based studies. It serves as the main source of information and analysis for international public policy on small arms issues.
Professor Krause's research interests also include concepts of security, the changing character of contemporary armed violence, and multilateral security cooperation. He has published Arms and the State (Cambridge) and edited or co-edited Critical Security Studies (Minnesota), and Culture and Security, and authored many journal articles and book chapters. Professor Krause is Canadian, and received his MPhil and DPhil from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has been a consultant for various international agencies and governments, comments frequently on international issues for the local and international media, and speaks regularly at scholarly and policy meetings and conferences.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE

Professor Meierding joined the Graduate Institute faculty in 2010. Prior to arriving at the Institute, Dr Meierding was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Centre for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. She holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Chicago. Dr Meierding is currently working on a book on petroleum’s role in international territorial disputes. She is also continuing previous studies of the relationship between climate change and civil conflict. Professor Meierding’s research has included fieldwork and language study in West Africa, North Africa and the Middle East.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Trained as a social anthropologist, Alessandro Monsutti became a member of the faculty in 2010, after having taught at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies from 2003 to 2007. He has been research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (1999-2000) and Yale University (2008-2010), as well as a grantee of the MacArthur Foundation (2004-2006). He has also been Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford) and the Laboratoire d’anthropologie des institutions et des organisations sociales (National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris). In addition, he has worked as a consultant for organisations such as the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation as well as the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit.

Alessandro Monsutti has conducted multi-sited research since the mid-1990s in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to study the modes of solidarity and cooperation mobilised in a situation of conflict and forced migration. He has subsequently broadened the geographical scope of his research to include members of the Afghan diaspora living in Western countries. This led him to analyse war and post-conflict reconstruction in the light of the social networks and economic strategies developed by refugees and migrants, and – more generally – to address theoretical and methodological issues related to globalisation. He is currently researching the political economy of Afghanistan through the circulation and use of transnational resources with the intention to highlight how the action of international agencies and non-governmental organisations contributes to the emergence of new forms of sovereignty and governance.

VISITING PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS & DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Associate Fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, Dr. Mohamedou was previously the Associate Director of the Harvard University Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research in Cambridge. His published works include Understanding Al Qaeda: The Transformation of War (2008), Iraq and the Second Gulf War: State-Building and Regime Security (2002), as well as several chapters and articles. He has been an Ambassador and Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Director of Research of the International Council on Human Rights Policy. His research focuses on transnational terrorism, the transformation of warfare, political liberalization and democratization, and Middle Eastern and North African sociopolitical developments and contemporary conflicts.

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou is an international scholar and diplomat, specializing in international affairs, political violence, terrorism, conflict research, democratization processes, and foreign policy analysis.

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS

Dr Rodogno was a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics (2002-2004) and Foreign Associate Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Paris (2004-2005). Since 2005, he has been a Research Council United Kingdom Academic Fellow at the School of History, University of St Andrews. He is currently “professeur boursier” for the Swiss National Science Foundation affiliated to the International History and Politics unit of the Graduate Institute where he leads a research project on the history of humanitarian international associations since 1850. His doctoral thesis was published in Italian as Il nuovo ordine mediterraneo (Bollati Boringhieri, 2003) and in English as Fascism’s European Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His second monograph on the concept and practice of international humanitarian intervention in the 19th century has recently been completed.

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.