Position(s) at the Institute

Professor, Development Studies

• Professor in Development Economics, Development Studies Unit
• Editor-in-chief, International Development Policy Series
• Deputy Director, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
• Affiliated Professor, International Econonomics

Profile

PhD in Economics, Neuchâtel University

Gilles Carbonnier has been a Professor of development economics at the Graduate Institute since March 2007. He is the Deputy-Director of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuiding (CCDP) and editor-in-chief of the International Development Policy Series. His current research and publications focus on development aid, humanitarian crises and responses as well as on the governance of oil and mineral resources in developing countries. He specialises on issues related to aid conditionality, the privatisation of warfare, corporate social responsibility and public-private partnerships.

Gilles Carbonnier has over 20 years of professional experience in international trade, development cooperation and humanitarian action:
 

• From 1999 to 2006, he headed the “economic and private-sector” team at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). He coordinated the ICRC’s strategic and management planning exercise for the period 2007-2010. He gained field experience in Iraq, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Ethiopia, West Africa and Central America. He was electoral supervisor under UN and OSCE missions.
• Before joining the ICRC, Gilles Carbonnier headed the Swiss market access negotiation team during the GATT/WTO Uruguay Round and was involved in China’s accession to the WTO. He contributed to the domestic implementation of the WTO agreements in Switzerland.
• He then moved to development cooperation and was responsible for Swiss trade-related development policy and programmes, in partnership with multilateral aid organisations. From 1996 to 1999, he was adviser to the Vietnamese authorities on WTO accession.

Areas of expertise

• Armed conflicts, violence (Political economy of armed conflits and post-war transitions)
• Corporate responsibility, Public-private partnerships
• Development, cooperation and aid policies
• Humanitarian action, intervention
• Multilateral diplomacy and international negotiation, soft governance
• Natural resources, extractive economies, commodities
  

Selected publications

• Carbonnier, G. (guest ed.) (forthcoming), Special issue on “The Governance of Extractive Resources,” Global Governance, Vol. 17, No. 2.

• Carbonnier, G (2009), "Private sector”, in V. Chetail, ed., Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Reconstruction : a Practical and Bilingual Lexicon, pp. 245-255. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Carbonnier, G. & M. Zarin-Nejadan (2009), “Effets économiques de l’aide publique au développement en Suisse – Etude 2006”, Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, No. 09-01, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• Carbonnier, G. (2008), “Les négociations multi-parties prenantes: l’exemple de l’Initiative de transparence des industries extractives”, Relations internationales, No. 136, pp. 101-114.
• Carbonnier, G. (2007), “Des matières premières pour financer le développement : comment conjurer la malédiction des ressources naturelles?” Annuaire Suisse de politique de développement, Vol. 26, No 2, pp. 83-98. Geneva: IUED.
• Carbonnier, G. (2006), “Privatisation & outsourcing in wartime: the humanitarian challenges,” Disasters, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 402-416.
• Undoing War Economies: A Prerequisite for Peace?, Refugee Survey Quarterly, 22 (4) 2003, pp. 165-77.
• Economie et conflit armé: vers une responsabilité humanitaire de l'entreprise, Géoéconomie, No. 26, 2003, pp. 9-36.
• The Competing Agendas of Economic Reform and Peace Process: A Politico-Economic Model Applied to Guatemala, World Development, 30 (8) 2002, pp. 1323-39.

 

Documents

CV_Prof_Carbonnier.pdf (21 Kb)

Feb 2, 2010