Management

Cédric Dupont is Professor of Political Science and Director of Executive Education at the Graduate Institute. He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley and an Associate Editor for Europe of the journal Business and Politics. He is a specialist in international political economy with a focus on trade and monetary integration processes and related governance issues. He also specialises in the analysis of strategic interactions between actors (with use of game theory). His ongoing research projects focus on the one hand on the institutional design of pan-regional integration groupings (such as APEC and FTAA), and on the other hand on the working of the WTO as a political system, with specific analysis of the questions of legitimacy and efficiency. He also leads a collaborative project with NGOs in Geneva and Oxford University to advance research and policy dialogue on trade, global economic governance and developing countries. Professor Dupont has a long experience in teaching professionals, often in collaboration with international organisations such as the WTO, and has consulted with leading multinational corporations on non-market strategies inside regional trading arrangements, with a particular focus on Western Europe and the Asia-Pacific.

Prior to joining the Executive Education in January 2011 as the Executive Director, Sophie Huber was the Managing Director of the Centre for International Governance since June 2008.

Sophie Huber was a Training Officer and Programme Coordinator at the Centre for Applied Studies in International Negotiations, a Geneva-based think-tank. She has organised training programmes for diplomats and high-level civil servants from the DPRK, Iraq, Algeria and Guinea among others, during which she has taught on global governance, the external relations of the European Union, and multilateral negotiations.

Sophie Huber has also been involved in academia, organising and participating in conferences on European integration history and politics. She has published some of her work and continues research on European identity discourses. Sophie Huber holds a degree from the Institut d'études politiques (Sciences Po) in Strasbourg, a M.A. in International History and Politics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and a PhD in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Géraldine Cour joined the Executive Education of the Graduate Institute last September 2009. Her role is to assist the executive director in the coordination and administrative management of the Executive Education department.

Géraldine Cour holds a Bachelor of Sciences in International Hospitality Management of the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland.