New Faculty Members (2012-2013)

Previously an Economist in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund, Yi Huang comes to the Institute with expertise in International macroeconomics and finance, financial economics, and emerging markets. Yi Huang has a PhD from the London Business School and a Master in Economics from the China Centre for Economic Research in Beijing University. He speaks Chinese and English. His current research projects include precautionary saving , liquid asset holding, financial frictions and FX reserves as well as the effects of valuation adjustment on external wealth. Yi Huang also serves as the research associate at the Globalization & Monetary Policy Institute of  the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Courses Taught: Macroeconomics II: Open Economy Macroeconomics; Topics in Finance and Development; International Financial Markets.

Lore Vandewalle joined the Institute from the University of Goettingen where she was a Postdoctoral Fellow. Previously she was Experienced Researcher at Bocconi University and the London School of Economics. She is a micro development economist who is focused on empirics and tests economic theory through fieldwork. Her work on women's self-help groups in India has brought a new angle to the study of microfinance issues. Her arrival strengthens the Institute's expertise in applied micro-development. It also provides additional expertise on India.

Courses Taught: Advanced Econometrics; Econometrics II; Econometrics IIIb; Economics and Development; Topics in Finance and Development; Trade and Development.

Director of the Institute’s Global Health Programme since 2008, Ilona Kickbusch advises organisations, government agencies and the private sector on policies and strategies to promote health at the national, European and international level. Before coming to the Graduate Institute, she was a consultant for the Swiss Confederation, the Pan American Health Organization and was Professor and Head of the Global Health Division at the Yale University’s School of Medicine. Prior to that, she worked at the World Health Organization in various key roles for nearly two decades.

Courses Taught: Global Health.

Giacomo Luciani has been Visitng Professor at the Institute since 2008 and is co-director of the Executive Master in Oil and Gas Leadership. He is also Scientific Director of the Master in International Energy of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences-Po, and a Princeton University Global Scholar. Professor's Luciani's career has crossed over into academia, industry and government. He has worked for ENI, the Italian Oil Company as well as taught at UCLA, the European University Institute in Florence, and the College of Europe. His recent research focuses on the security of energy supplies, the stabilisation of oil prices, and the diversification of oil exporting countries' economies.

Courses Taught: The Politics and Economics in International Energy; Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa.

Professor Bharadwaj joined the Graduate Institute as Research Professor of Anthropology and Sociology in January 2013. He completed doctoral research at the University of Bristol and post-doctoral fellowship at Cardiff University before joining University of Edinburgh where he taught and researched for over seven years. His research uncovers the local and global dimensions underscoring the production, utilisation and circulation of biomedicine and biotechnologies. In particular his research examines: (a) global politics of biotechnologies (b) emerging bioeconomies (c) cultural production of knowledge (d) subject formation (e) ethical and moral governance (f) transnational therapeutic mobility.

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Prior to joining the Graduate Institute, Dr Gfeller was a research fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. She has published in such journals as Cold War History, Contemporary European History, and Cultures & Conflits. Her first book (Building a European Identity: France, the United States, and the Oil Shock) was published by Berghahn Books in 2012. She is currently conducting a research project on the history of international heritage cooperation from the 1960s to the 1990s, with an emphasis on transnational expert networks, the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, and the tension between universalism and context-specific political/cultural agendas.

Courses Taught: Nature, Culture and Internationalism: A Transnational Perspective.

Thomas Schultz has worked in the fields of international dispute settlement, private international law, public international law, jurisprudence, and technology law. In 2010, he received the Prix Jubilé of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (OUP). His current book projects deal with arbitration, transnational and private international law.

Courses Taught: Law without the State.

SNSF Ambizione Fellow, International History

Before joining the Graduate Institute, Amalia Ribi Forclaz was a visiting research fellow at the Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies in Heidelberg and a postdoctoral fellow at the Modern European History Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Her first book on anti-slavery activism between 1880 and 1940 (Humanitarian Imperialism. The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism, 1880-1940, currently in press at OUP) offers a new perspective on the transnational history of humanitarian organisations and their interaction with imperial power politics. Her current research focuses on the transnational history of agricultural labour regulation between 1930 and 1970.