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GHC - Adam Strobeyko

Adam STROBEYKO

Legal Advisor & Researcher, Global Health Centre
Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism
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Profile
 

Adam Strobeyko is a Legal Advisor and Researcher at the Global Health Centre and the Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Adam has served as Principal Investigator for a Swiss National Science Foundation project on Access and Benefit Sharing, focusing on the international regulation of genetic sequence data and samples. He has also served as a Rapporteur for the WHO Ethics and Governance Sub-Working Group on Pandemic-Related Products and as a legal officer for Swiss biobanks.

Adam has organized capacity-building workshops and webinars and has published policy analyses on topics such as pathogen access and benefit sharing, One Health, health product research and development, laboratory networks, financing, vaccine supply and allocation. His current projects focus on creating policy tools and digital archives related to WHO health emergency response.

Adam holds a PhD in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute (distinction), a MA degree in International Public Management from Sciences Po Paris, and an LLB in European Law from Maastricht University. Adam was also Global Fellow at Guarini Global Law & Tech, NYU Law, and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at the Harvard Law School.

Adam is particularly interested in the role of law in addressing technological and scientific innovation.
 

Experience

 

  • Legal Advisor & Researcher, the Global Health Centre and the Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism, Geneva Graduate Institute
  • Principal Investigator, Access and Benefit Sharing, 2024-2025
  • Rapporteur, WHO Ethics & Governance Sub-WG on Pandemic-Related Products
  • Legal Researcher, Global Health Centre, 2021-2023

 

Selected Publications 

 

  1. Haas, A. S., Strobeyko, A., dos Santos Ribeiro, C., Waheed, Z., Ventouratou, M., Weissgold, L., Rahman, N., Prat, C., Coutard, B., Cochrane, G., Scholz, A., & signatory authors. 2026. ‘Threading the needle on Traceability within the PABS System – Promoting Equity and Science.’
  2. Strobeyko, A., ‘When Science Meets Sovereignty: Regulating Infrastructures for Pathogen Genetic Sequence Data.’ 29 May 2025.
  3. Strobeyko, A., ‘Database Policy Comparison for the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) Annex to the WHO Pandemic Agreement.’ 25 November 2025.
  4. Strobeyko, A. ‘A New Beginning for International Benefit-Sharing? Harmonising and Complying with Rules on Digital Sequence Information.’ CIL Dialogues, 23 February 2025.
  5. Strobeyko, A. et al. ‘Equitable access to pandemic products demands stronger public governance’. The Lancet, Vol. 404, No. 10467, 23 November 2024.
  6. Strobeyko, A. ‘The Future of Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing under International Law’. VerfBlog, 29 March 2024.
  7. Strobeyko, A. & Burci, G.L. ‘Towards Integrated Early Warning Systems: Review of Disaster Risk Reduction and One Health Approaches in Light of Pandemic Treaty Negotiations.’ Yearbook of International Disaster Law, Vol. 5, 2023, 358–381.
  8. Strobeyko, A. ‘Understanding pandemic financing and learning from other experiences’. Workshop report. Global Health Centre, the Graduate Institute, Geneva, 2024.
  9. Strobeyko, A. ‘The Person of the State: The Anthropomorphic Subject of the Law of Nations.’ Journal of the History of International Law, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2022, 36–69.
  10. Rizk, A.; Strobeyko, A.; Burci, G.L.; Moon, S. 'What are the options? Pathogen-, GSD- and Benefit- Sharing in an International Instrument’. Global Health Centre, the Graduate Institute, Geneva, 2022.
  11. Strobeyko, A. ‘Synthetic Biology and Emerging Risks’. Tech Hub, Global Health Centre.
     

Fellowships, Grants and Awards
 

  • Merit-based post-doctoral scholarship awarded by NYU Hauser Global Law School Program (2022)
  • Merit-based scholarship awarded by the Hague Academy of International law (2019)
  • Excellence scholarship awarded by the Graduate Institute (2018)
  • Certificate of Excellence awarded by Peking University (2015)
  • Certificate of Appreciation awarded by Maastricht University and Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and
  • Technology, United Nations University (2014)