This event is organised by the Graduate Institute, the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva and the Academic Platform Switzerland UN

16.15: WELCOME ADDRESS
Philippe Burrin, Director, the Graduate Institute
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, President Academic Platform Switzerland UN, Professor, University of Geneva

16.20-18.00 ROUNDTABLE
ISSUES OF TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND THE SECURITY COUNCIL

With the presence of H.E. Mr. Paul Seger, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Nations

CHAIR
Nicolas Michel, Professor, University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute

SPEAKERS
Vera Gowlland, Honorary Professor, the Graduate Institute
Simon Hug, Professor, University of Geneva
Thomas Fitschen, Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations in Geneva
Jürg Lindenmann, Deputy Director, Directorate for Public International Law, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Anne Peters, Professor, University of Basel and Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
Andrea Bianchi, Professor, the Graduate Institute

Discussions will take place in English and French without translation service.

18.15-19.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
IS THERE ANY WHITE SMOKE COMING OUT OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL CHAMBER? THE LONG STORY OF THE COMPREHENSIVE REFORM OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL

Paul SEGER, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Nations

Ambassador Paul R. Seger, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations. From July 2003 until 2010, Paul R. Seger served as Legal Adviser and Head of the Directorate of International Law of Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. From 2000 to 2003, he was Deputy Chief of Mission of the Swiss Embassy in Buenos Aires. From 1995 to 2000, Mr Seger was Head of the International Law Section and Deputy Head of the Division for International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Prior to that, he served as Legal Adviser for Switzerland’s Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Swiss Embassy in Kinshasa. Mr Seger has a law degree from the University of Basel and is a lecturer at its law faculty.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE ACADEMIC PLATFORM SWITZERLAND UN AWARD 2012

This event will be followed by cocktail
 

Free entrance
For more information and Registration, please contact: apsun@graduateinstitute.ch by 26 October.
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond, Site Barton, 132 rue de Lausanne
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