Professors

ASSOCIATE FELLOW, ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, CHATHAM HOUSE

Dr Philip Andrews-Speed is an independent energy policy analyst and an Associate Fellow of Chatham House. Until 2010 he was Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Dundee and Director of the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. He spent fourteen years as a geologist in the international mining and petroleum industries before gaining an LLM in Energy Law and Policy. The focus of his research has been on energy policy, regulation and reform in China, and on the interface between energy policy and international relations. Publications include: The Strategic Implications of China’s Energy Needs (Adelphi Paper 346, 2002) and Energy Policy and Regulation in the People’s Republic of China (Kluwer Law International, 2004). His book, with Roland Dannreuther, entitled China, Oil and Global Politics will be published by Routledge in May 2011, and he is embarking on a book entitled The Governance of Energy in China. Implications for Future Sustainability to be published by Palgrave MacMillan.   
    
Recently he has began to examine global challenges relating to energy and mineral resources and to the process of policy-making in these sectors.  April 2008 saw the publication of International Competition for Resources: the Role of Law, the State and of Markets. From January 2010 he has been leading a major European Union, Framework 7 Programme project with a world-wide remit on “Competition and Collaboration in Access to Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources”.

PROFESSOR, ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, GRADUATE INSTITUTE

Jean-Louis Arcand has been Professor of International Economics and Development Studies at the Graduate Institute since 2008. He has also been recently appointed Chair of Development Studies. Jean-Louis Arcand is associate editor of the Journal of African Economies and the Revue d'Economie du Développement, co-editor of the European Journal of Development Research, and Founding Fellow of the European Union Development Network (EUDN). He was assistant and then Associate Professor at the University of Montréal, and Professor at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches en Développement International (CERDI). Professor Arcand holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. His research focuses on the microeconomics of development, particularly in West Africa and the Maghreb, with a current focus on impact evaluation of social programmes. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the FAO, the UNDP, the Gates Foundation and several national governments. Jean-Louis Arcand is currently leading impact evaluations in Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, The Cameroon, The Gambia, Mali, Morocco, and Senegal.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ECONOMICS, GRADUATE INSTITUTE

Nicolas Berman joined the faculty in 2009 after spending a year as a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He was previously a research fellow in the macroeconomics department of the Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST) and at the Banque de France in Paris. He also taught at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po, Paris. His research focuses on international trade and international macroeconomics, with a particular interest in the determinants and impacts of trade flows, including: the effect of exchange rate shocks on trade; the role of exporting behavior and liquidity constraints on growth; the impact of financial crises and international trade.

PROFESSOR, RISK MANAGEMENT, GENEVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Nathalie Brender (PhD and MALD in international relations, US CPA) is Professor at the Geneva School of Business Administration (HEG Geneva) since 2010. She is teaching and conducting research in risk management and auditing. She recently completed a PhD thesis in the field of global risk governance in health, combining science-based and business approaches to risk. Her past professional experience includes management positions in business risk consulting and financial reporting in the private sector. Since 2007, she is in charge of the module Management of strategic risk in the Diploma of Advanced Studies co-organized by HEC Geneva and HEG Geneva. From 2007 to 2010, she was co-responsible of the Commodity Trading course intended to provide final year Bachelor students with knowledge and skills to start a career in that sector. Her areas of interest include governance of global risks, enterprise risk management and internal control systems.

PROFESSOR, DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, GRADUATE INSTITUTE

Gilles Carbonnier, Ph.D Economics, has been a professor of international development cooperation at the Graduate Institute since March 2007. He is the Deputy-Director of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) and editor-in-chef of the International Development Policy Series. His areas of specialisation include the political economy of war, corporate responsibility, public-private partnerships and humanitarian action. Over the past twenty years, Gilles Carbonnier has gained professional experience in the field of international trade negotiations, development cooperation, and humanitarian action. From 1999 to 2006, he was economic adviser and head of the private-sector relations team at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). He also coordinated the ICRC’s strategic planning exercise for 2006-2010. Before that, Gilles Carbonnier was in charge of market access negotiations during the Uruguay Round (GATT), and was involved in China’s and Vietnam’s accession to the WTO. Working for the Swiss government, he managed development cooperation programmes related to trade

Watch his interview on oil in emerging economies (March 2012)

PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE, GRADUATE INSTITUTE

Cédric Dupont is Professor of Political Science and Director of Executive Education at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. 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 of 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 provided consultancy services to leading multinational corporations on non-market strategies inside regional trading arrangements, with a particular focus on Western Europe and the Asia-Pacific.

DIRECTOR, OIL AND MIDDLE EAST PROGRAMME, OXFORD INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY STUDIES

Dr Bassam Fattouh is the Director of the Oil and Middle East Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies; Research Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford University; and Professor of Management and Finance at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has published a variety of articles on the international oil pricing system, OPEC pricing power, and the dynamics of oil prices where his articles has appeared in Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, and Energy Policy. Recently, Dr Fattouh served as a member of an independent expert group established to provide recommendations to the 12th International Energy Forum (IEF) Ministerial Meeting in Cancun (29-31 March 2010) for strengthening the architecture of the producer-consumer dialogue through the IEF and reducing energy market volatility. Dr Fattouh has also published in non-energy related areas where his papers have appeared in the Journal of Development Economics, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Economics Letters and Macroeconomic Dynamics and in other journals and books.

CONSULTANT, WDCooperation, PROFESSOR, IFP SCHOOL

Jean Pierre Favennec has a degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques – master in chemical engineering - (Nancy - France)  and a degree in Oil Economics from the IFP School .

He began his career as a consultant in the oil industry and worked on a number of projects in the field of gas production, refining, and petrochemical complexes, including numerous studies concerning the strategies, pricing, and profitability of these sectors. He was a project manager in over fifty different countries from South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.

Since 1990 Jean Pierre Favennec has been a professor at the IFP School.  He was responsible for training seminars for the major energy companies in France and worldwide. He was Director of the Centre for Economics and Management from October 2000 to December 2007. He was Director, Expert from 2007 to 2009.

Jean Pierre Favennec is a specialist in energy, including energy economics, geopolitics and the strategic aspects. He has also worked more specifically on the downstream sector of the hydrocarbons industry, and has written a number of papers on these subjects. He is the author of several books: Refining Economics and Management;  Research and Production of Oil and Gas : Reserves, Costs, Contract;  Energy : at which price ? and The Geopolitics of Energy.

Jean-Pierre Favennec is teaching Energy Economics in many Universities including Universities in Asia and the Middle East Countries. He is also speaking in many international conferences and seminars, all over the world, about the situation of the energy, oil and gas industries.

Jean-Pierre Favennec is an active consultant for international and national oil companies and governments.
 

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND CHIEF ECONOMIST, WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION

Patrick Low is Chief Economist at the World Trade Organization and an Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. He worked for GATT from 1980-1988 and joined the WTO in 1995. He served as WTO Director-General Mike Moore's Chief of Staff from 1999-2001. Professor Low taught from 1988-1990 at El Colegio de México, and served in the research complex of the World Bank from 1990-2004. He holds a PhD in economics from Sussex University and has written widely on trade policy issues.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE, GRADUATE INSTITUTE

Dr. Meierding is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Prior to joining the faculty, she was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Centre for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. Dr. Meierding holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching focus on issues of energy and environmental security. She is currently working on a book project about the role of petroleum resources in international territorial disputes, examining the question of when states have historically been willing to militarize competition over oil fields. She is also engaged in a project assessing the impact of uranium extraction and production on sub-state conflicts. Dr. Meierding’s research has included fieldwork in the Gulf of Guinea and the Middle East.

SENIOR LECTURER, INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA

Thomas Schultz is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva, where he works on international dispute settlement, with an approached based on non-blackletter-law perspectives. He is the Executive Director of the Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement, a joint programme of the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and is the founder and Managing Editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Oxford University Press, launched in 2010). Thomas is also in charge of the Geneva doctoral school in international dispute settlement. He is a member of the editorial board of the Revue du droit des technologies de l'information. Thomas has authored the books Information Technology and Arbitration (Kluwer 2006), Réguler le commerce électronique par la résolution des litiges en ligne (Bruylant 2005) and, with Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, Online Dispute Resolution: Challenges for Contemporary Justice (Kluwer 2004). His law review articles have appeared in journals such as the European Journal of International Law, the Yearbook of Private International Law, and the Yale Journal of Law & Information Technology. His work is inlcuded in reading lists of several academic institutions inlcuding, for instance, Stanford Law School and Cambridge University. His advisory activities include participation in working groups of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the Federation of European Direct Marketing, and a major Swiss consumer organisation.