Daniel Fino is a Senior lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEID) and the Director of IMAS, an executive education program. From 2000 to 2007 he was Deputy Director of Institut universitaire d'études du développement (IUED), now integrated into IHEID. He is a socio-economist by training and holds a master’s degree in (lic.rer.pol.) from the University of Berne (1973). He also holds a master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA), from the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Administration Publique (Idheap) in Lausanne (diploma in July 1999). In the past, he has also worked as a consultant and trainer at the Graduate Institute for governments, NGO's, the ICRC, UNDP and SDC.

Before starting at the institute, Daniel Fino was a technical assistant for the Swiss government in Burkina-Faso and a technical adviser of the Minister of Social Affairs and the regional social administration (Tenkodogo) from 1977 to 1980. From 1973 to1976, he served as a social-economist research fellow at the University of Geneva, the Swiss Polytecnicum School in Zurich and the "Centre Europe-Tiers-Monde" in Geneva.

Daniel Fino’s country expertise includes: Albania, Benin, Burkina-Faso, Burundi, Cape-Vert, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Cost, Laos, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Niger, Peru, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia, and Vietnam. He speaks French, German, Italian and English.

• International Aid System: Actors, Instruments, Participation, North-South Relation, Challenges, Limits and Problems, Reforms
• Strategic Management in development contextes: Identification, Planification, Monitoring, Evaluation, Negotiation
• Articulation between Development Aid and Humanitarian Aid
• How to support Micro-Finance by the Aid System
• Capacity building / Role of adult training for development

• (with J.E. Beuret), Aide au développement et conflit armé au Burundi, Pour quoi rester, comment agir?, Karthala, Paris, 2009
• “La démarche d’appui institutionnel aux services publics”, in K.K.Hong, éd., Jeux et Enjeux de l’auto-promotion, vers d’autres formes de coopération au développement, PUF-Paris et IUED-Genève, 1991
• Impasses et promesses, L'ambiguité de la coopération au développement, sous la direction de Daniel Fino, Collection Enjeux, IUED/Nouveaux cahiers de l'IUED, Genève-Paris,1996.
• Le système de Programmation-Suivi-Evaluation dans une démarche d'appui institutionnel, (D.Fino, S.Ghinet), Itinéraires IUED, Pratique et réflexion No. 47, 1996.
• Développement et urgence: le cas de l'OAP au Burundi, dans "Annuaire Suisse-Tiers Monde, 1999", No 18, IUED, Genève, 1999.
• Le programme hydraulique Niger-Suisse (PHNS), Quelques leçons à retenir, in "Cahiers Africains d'Administration Publique", no 57, p.51-65, 2001.
• Financer le risque : un nouveau projet pour la coopération internationale / La couverture du risque pour accéder à des ressources financières: l’expérience du Fonds international de Garantie (FIG) (D.Fino, Fernand Vincent), in "Autrepart", (44), Paris, 2007, p. 37-52
• AIDE AU DEVELOPPEMENT ET CONFLIT ARME AU BURUNDI, Pourquoi rester, comment agir?, J-E. Bereut et D. Fino, Karthala, Paris, 2009, 165p.