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Faculty & Staff

   
Cédric Dupont
CO-DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE CERTIFICATE ADVOCACY IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS


Cédric Dupont is Professor of Political Science and Director of Executive Education and International Programmes 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.
   
Rolf Olsen
CO-DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE CERTIFICATE ADVOCACY IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS


Rolf Olsen is the CEO of LEIDAR and a seasoned executive trainer and global communications strategist. Over the last 10 years, he has worked primarily on long-term communications consulting engagements with clients such as Siemens, Nestle, Statoil, Telenor, Yara, Honeywell and MasterCard.

During his more than 30-year career, Rolf has been part of the global management team at both leading agencies and Fortune 50 corporations—roles which have provided him with unique senior international experience in communications management, executive coaching and crisis management. Before launching LEIDAR, he was CEO, Continental Europe for Weber Shandwick, the world’s leading public relations company, where he led a team of 1,000+ professionals and managed subsidiaries in Continental Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Prior to that, Rolf was vice president of corporate marketing, communications and public affairs for Motorola, with responsibility for EMEA. Before joining Motorola, he spent 13 years at Digital Equipment Corporation where he managed all aspects of communications at local, regional and global levels. He developed broad-level senior management experience early on as member of the European Management Boards both at Digital and Motorola.

Rolf enjoys working with C-level executives and serving as a trusted partner to Chief Communications Officers at large corporations. Today he also lectures regularly as part of various executive programmes at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and he sits on the Advisory Committee at the Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship Institute at EPFL in Lausanne.
   
 
Lukasz Bochenek

PROGRAMME OFFICER, EXECUTIVE CERTIFICATE ADVOCACY IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Lukasz is LEIDAR’s research expert and programme manager of educational initiatives. In addition to his role at LEIDAR, he is a PhD candidate in management studies at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where he is working on a thesis about the role of corporate social responsibility in corporate communications strategies. Lukasz started his career in the Warsaw offices of McCann Erickson where he worked on the General Motors and Microsoft accounts. He has also completed various research projects for organizations including Polkomtel, the University of Warsaw and the European Broadcasting Union. Lukasz regularly participates in international conferences in France, Switzerland and Canada and publishes articles in scientific journals. As a part of the day-to-day management of the collaboration between LEIDAR and Graduate Institute, Lukasz will be based at the Graduate Institute Executive Education office.