Visiting Fellow, Global Governance Centre
Tania Messell a Postdoctoral Researcher in the SNSF Sinergia project Governing Through Design (2020-2024). Over the next twelve months she will be furthering her investigations on design, humanitarian aid and resilience thinking as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Global Governance Centre. Her research interests cover global, international and transnational histories of design, the past and current role of innovation and design in humanitarian aid and international development, and the rise of infrastructures of resilience. Author of several peer-reviewed publications, she is also the co-editor of International Design Organisations: Histories, Legacies, Values published by Bloomsbury (2022).
Visiting Fellow, Global Governance Centre
Yifan Jia is a visiting research fellow at the Global Governance Centre. She is a PhD candidate and visiting lecturer at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London. She also teaches at the Department of Political Economy and the Department of War Studies, and researches at the Transnational Law Institute at King's. Yifan Jia's research project is a social-legal study on the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regimes, which combines doctrinal analysis with empirical methods to explore the legitimacy and effectiveness of the Magnitsky sanctions. She is a qualified lawyer in the People’s Republic of China and practised criminal law in Beijing before joining King's.
Visiting Fellow, Global Governance Centre
Huaying Bao has worked as an administrator in higher education for over 10 years and has abundant experience in public diplomacy in the academic field. She was a visiting fellow at George Washington University. Her research interests range from US-China relations, comparative education, immigration, to international organizations and global governance. Her recent project is on the cultivation of talents for international organizations. In GGC she will do research on the relationship of China and International Organizations, NGOs and international governance, etc.
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre
Fanny Badache is a postdoctoral researcher in the project “A child of its time: The impact of world politics on UN peacebuilding” with the Graduate Institute's Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP). Between 2015 and 2020, she was a teaching assistant and PhD candidate in political science at the University of Lausanne. During the academic year 2018-2019, she was a visiting fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies of the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation). Her research interests lie at the intersection between international relations and public administration. She specialized in the study of international bureaucracies. In her PhD dissertation, she studied the impact of staff diversity on the performance and perceived legitimacy of the UN Secretariat. She is also interested in methods to research international organizations and a strong advocate for cross-disciplinary dialogue.
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre
Ana BALCAZAR-MORENO is an international lawyer. She holds an LL.B. awarded by the University of Rosario, a Political Science degree from Sciences Po Lyon, an LL.M. from the University of Geneva and an LL.M. from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Her doctoral research focuses on global governance, regime interaction, crises and international organizations networks. Before joining the Centre, she worked for several UN organizations, the European Union and non-governmental organizations in Colombia, Belgium, France, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Visiting lecturer, International Relations/Political Science
Monique J. Beerli is a research associate at the Global Governance Centre at the Graduate Institute. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley and the New School of Social Research from February 2018 to July 2019. In 2017, she completed a double degree in political science, with a specialization in international relations, from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Geneva.
Research Associate
Julia Bethwaite is a Doctoral Researcher in International Relations at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University. Her research interests cover the role of art and power in international relations and world politics, practices of cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations, elite networks, and interaction of state and non-state actors within the transnational space of art. In her doctoral dissertation, she analyzes power dynamics related to Venice Biennale and fine art museums by focusing on Russian actors. Besides her doctoral research, she is the Academic Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Programme in Leadership for Change at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Erna Burai is Postdoctoral Researcher in the “To Save and to Defend: Global Normative Ambiguity and Regional Order” project, where she covers African regional and sub-regional organizations. A graduate of Central European University (CEU), Erna is an IR theorist with an expertise in norm research in the context of humanitarian interventions and the responsibility to protect. Before joining the Graduate Institute, she held visiting fellowships at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, the Montreal Centre for International Studies (CÉRIUM) and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at the University College London. She was also part of the international research project Global Norm Evolution & the Responsibility to Protect, and led an International Relations program at a Hungarian higher education institution.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sara (Meg) Davis is principal investigator of a multi-country participatory action research project on digital health and human rights, and special advisor on strategy and partnerships at the Global Health Centre. Seh has twenty years’ experience in global health and human rights as a scholar and practitioner. She earned her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and UCLA. She was China researcher at Human Rights Watch, and founding executive director of Asia Catalyst. At the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Dr. Davis led early work to operationalise the Fund's commitments on human rights. She has held visiting fellowships at New York University, Columbia University, and Fordham University. She has taught at the Geneva Centre for Humanitarian Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Temple University, Yale University, and University of Pennsylvania; and has consulted for UN agencies, Global Fund Board delegations, and civil society networks.
Visiting Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo
Dr. Dêlidji Eric Degila is a Research Associate at the CCDP and a Swiss Excellence Scholar-in-Residence at the Graduate Institute’s Global Governance Centre. Initially trained as a diplomat at Benin’s National School of Administration, he received a doctorate in political science/international relations from the Jean Moulin University Lyon III in France. He has been a Visiting Professor of African Politics at Komajo and Waseda universities in Japan.
Senior Research Associate, Global Governance Centre.
Janelle Diller has served as legal counsel since 1998 for the International Labour Organization where she was appointed Deputy Legal Adviser in 2008. She has contributed to the development of international labour standards, soft law principles on business responsibility, and multi-stakeholder initiatives. She was closely involved in the Rana Plaza Arrangement to compensate several thousand worker victims of a factory collapse in Bangladesh. Her expertise includes international organizations, human and labour rights, international law, and governance related to transnational business.
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre.
Thomas Gidney completed his PhD in International History at the Graduate Institute. His thesis examines how British colonies were admitted as member states to the League of Nations and the politics behind why only Britain decided to “represent” its colonies internationally. He is currently converting this thesis into a book. Thomas is currently working on a SNF project on the politics of juridical extraterritoriality during the 'Interwar' period, and Is also working with the universities of Oxford and Exeter on a project on the history of aid organisations and their legitimacy.
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre
Miia Halme-Tuomisaari is Associate Professor in Human Rights Studies at Lund University. A legal anthropologist by her background, she has done ethnographic fieldwork at the UN Human Rights Committee and the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has also conducted archival research on the International League for the Rights of Man in the 1940s. Her publications include Human Rights in Action: Learning Expert Knowledge (Brill 2010) and Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights (CUP 2015, co-ed with Pamela Slotte). She is currently writing a monograph on her work at the Human Rights Committee.
Post-doctoral researcher at the Center for International Studies (CERI)
Zuzana Hudáková is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for International Studies (CERI) at SciencesPo, Paris and a research affiliate at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Her research focuses on (1) the politics of contestation and everyday resistance in authoritarian regimes in a cross-regional perspective and (2) the use and effectiveness of United Nations sanctions.
Research Associate
Velibor Jakovleski is and Affiliated Researcher at the University of Ottawa and Research associate at the Global Governance Centre where he used to be Head of Research. He obtained his PhD and MA in Political Science from the Graduate Institute and his BA from the University of Toronto. His research primarily investigates how, why, and when institutions and organisations change.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Lys Kulamadayil is an international lawyer. She holds an LL.B. jointly awarded by the Universities of Bremen, Oldenburg and Groningen, an LL.M. from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. In her PhD thesis, Lys Kulamadayil explores different ways in which international law matters to economic and human development and the distribution of power and wealth in resource-wealthy postcolonial countries.
Research Associate
Aurélien LLorca has served during ten years as an Expert for several United Nations Security Council Committees and as Coordinator of the Panel of Experts on the Central African Republic, appointed by the UN Secretary General. He is a PhD candidate in International Law at the University of Neuchâtel, and a lecturer in International Security at the Grenoble Law faculty and the International Relations Institute of Paris (ILERI). His research focuses on the evolution of working methods, procedures and decision processes of UN Security Council subsidiary organs. He holds two Masters in political science from Sciences Po Grenoble and Paris-East University and holds the rank of Captain in the French national Police.
Research Associate
Felix Lüth is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Global Governance Centre. His academic research focuses on issues of corporate liability and illicit finance/wealth, especially in the context of international and transnational crimes. He also has a more general interest in international and transnational criminal law, the history of international law and its practice in domestic legal systems. In addition to his academic activities, Felix works as a Legal Researcher at the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and is a trainee lawyer (Referendar) with the Higher Regional Court of Berlin. Before joining the Centre, he was a Swiss National Science Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute of King’s College London and worked, amongst others, for Professor Georg Nolte in his capacity as a Special Rapporteur of the UN International Law Commission, the international criminal justice NGO Civitas Maxima as well as in the investment arbitration and public international law practice groups of an international law firm in Geneva. Felix holds a law degree from Humboldt-University Berlin (with a specialisation in public international and European law), a Certificate in Transnational Law from the University of Geneva and a PhD in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute.
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre
Negar Mansouri is a PhD candidate in international law at the Graduate Institute and the Learning Manager at the Master of Advanced Studies in International Affairs. She is writing a thesis on the history of three technical international organizations-the International Telecommunications Union, the International Maritime Organizations and the International Tropical Timber Organization-between 1960 and 1990s and how they reconfigured production relations and created transnational classes. Negar is interested in historical materialist approaches to global governance, expertise and pedagogy of IR and international law. She is currently co-editing a volume on alternative approaches to the study of international institutions in international law. She has previously researched UN Reform as well as economic sanctions. Before starting her doctoral studies, she completed a master's degree in international law at the Graduate Institute and another master's in public international law and a bachelor of laws in Iran. She has also worked for several UN organizations and non-governmental organizations.
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre
Matias E. Margulis is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. His research interests span international trade, human rights, development and food security. His most recent book is Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security (Stanford University Press, 2023).
Research Associate, University of Mannheim
Moritz Neubert's academic education touched upon a variety of aspects in the realm of global governance with a particular focus on the European Union (EU) as an institution and actor, as well as issue areas of conflict and security. He is contributing to the project "Fighting together, moving apart? European common defence and shared security in an age of Brexit and Trump".
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre
Svitlana Ovcharenko is Research Associate at the Global Governance Center since November 2022, following a fellowship in the International Relations and Political Science Department. She is the author of the concept of “another rationality” and her research uses a multidisciplinary methodology. She focuses on implementing general theoretical knowledge from the philosophy of culture, aesthetics, and ethics in political and governance practices.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Potsdam
Nina Reiners is Associate Professor for Human Rights and Social Sciences at the University of Oslo. Her current research projects focus on the role of private actors for the delivery of global justice, opportunities for advocacy in shrinking civic spaces, autocratic interests in international lawmaking, and the biographies of UN human rights experts. Nina earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Potsdam and was a member of the interdisciplinary research group “International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?” from 2016-2023. She first joined the Global Governance Centre in 2018 as visiting scholar and is affiliated as research associate since 2019. Her book Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights (CUP, 2022) was launched at the Graduate Institute and is the winner of the ACUNS Book Award.
Senior Research Associate, Global Governance Centre and Sanctions and Sustainable Peace Hub
Farzan Sabet is an expert on economic sanctions, nuclear non-proliferation, and Middle East politics. Dr. Sabet is a Senior Research Associate of the Global Governance Centre and the Sanctions and Sustainable Peace Hub at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He was previously a Researcher in the Middle East WMD-Free Zone Project at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Global Governance Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute, a Nuclear Security Predoctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. Dr. Sabet holds a Ph.D and M.A. in International History and Politics from the Geneva Graduate Institute and a B.A. in History and Political Science from McGill University. He speaks English, French, and Persian.
PhD Candidate in the International Relations/Political Science department
Laura Schenker is a PhD Candidate in the International Relations/Political Science department. Her research focuses on the diffusion of public policies across local bureaucracies --a topic she investigates through the lens of organisational theory and complex systems, using archival research, semi-structured interviews, and network analysis techniques. Her project, “Packages and Routines: The Diffusion of Policy Innovation Across Cities” is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation Doc.CH scheme. She holds a Master in International Relations/Political Science from the Graduate Institute, and a Bachelor in Political Science from the University of Geneva.
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre
Emrys Schoemaker is pursuing research on digital transformation in global and humanitarian affairs. He will conduct research on digital transformation in global affairs in the context of the governance of digitalisation, focusing on the global implications of domestic frameworks such as the EU’s suite of digital regulations, and developing ‘model governance frameworks’ for digital public goods, specifically for digital identity systems. He will also research the digital transformation of humanitarian response, focusing on issues of digital interoperability in the context of digitalised systems, cash and digital identity.
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre
Astrid Skjold is a PhD student in International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Her research interests lie in global environmental politics, and her doctoral work focuses on the temporal dimensions of climate change and environmental degradation as crises. At the Global Governance Centre, she has contributed to work on the structuring of international organizations. She holds a Master in International Relations and Political Science from the Graduate Institute and a Bachelor in International Relations and Economics from the University of Birmingham.
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre.
Ueli Staeger is a Research and Teaching Fellow (Maître-Assistant) in International Relations and Security at the University of Geneva. In July 2021, he defended my PhD thesis in International Relations/Political Science at the Graduate Institute, summa cum laude. He researches the role of international organizations (IOs) in the provision of security, with a focus on the African Union. The focus of his dissertation lied in the mechanisms through which resource mobilization affects IO secretariats’ agency. Different case studies explore the diversification of African Union resource mobilization from member states and external partners in its regular budget, peace & security and infrastructure development at the AU Development Agency AUDA-NEPAD. Additional research interests include EU foreign policy in the post-Soviet space and Africa. Ueli’s work is published in the Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics and International Spectator. He has previously studied at SOAS, University of London, the College of Europe and University of Geneva.
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre.
Dr Cristina Teleki holds a PhD from the Faculty of Law of Bern University. In parallel with her doctoral studies, she has worked at the European Court of Human Rights and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Dr Teleki currently works on two topics: regulation of Big Tech and cause lawyering.
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre.
Ezgi Yildiz is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), and a research affiliate at the Global Governance Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute where she used to work for the Paths of International Law: Stability and Change in the International Legal Order (PATHS) project, funded by the European Research Council. Her research is interdisciplinary, at the intersection of International Relations and International Law. Her areas of specialization include global governance, international courts and organizations, human rights, and ocean governance.