IMAS Director, Senior Lecturer

Daniel Fino has been a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Graduate Institute since 1980. His areas of expertise are international cooperation and the management of aid. He always had a close interest in the problems of Africa, Latin America and several Balkan states ; he has undertaken medium- and short-term missions on different continents. Since 2003, he has been managing the IMAS Executive Education programme. He is also responsible for managing several important projects and mandates on behalf of the Swiss Confederation and other institutions. Daniel Fino is a socio-economist by training (lic. rer.pol (Master) University of Berne); he also has a IdHEAP diploma from Lausanne and a Master in Public Administration. As a teacher and researcher, his interests are focused on aid systems, strategic management, the role of international cooperation in microfinance, and the emergency aid-development continuum. Daniel Fino has always approached development issues from a theoretical and conceptual perspective, linking them to socio-economic and institutional conditions in countries and among less privileged populations.

Tel. + 41 22 908.4513
Email : daniel.fino@graduateinstitute.ch

Senior Lecturer, Regional Coordinator IMAS - Asia

Alexandre Dormeier Freire earned a PhD in development studies at the University of Geneva and became since 2002 a senior lecturer and Asian coordinator of the IMAS (International Executive Master in Development Studies), held in Hanoi and Geneva. As a sociologist, he is mainly working on education and governance issues in Indonesia and Vietnam with a special focus on social inequalities, social transformations, privatization and liberalization impacts. Dr. Dormeier Freire has published both in French and English several articles and books on Vietnam and Indonesia. He has made several mandates for the Swiss Development Cooperation Agency in Asia on skills development related issues. He has also participated in international researches on education and social inequalities in Southeast Asia. He is currently working on the WTO social impacts and quality issues in Vietnam. His 
fields of expertise: Methods in social sciences; Governance, decentralization, state-society relations, (Indonesia, Vietnam); Knowledge society, internationalization of higher education, skills development and social inequalities (Vietnam, Indonesia). He teaches mainly on Methods, Research Design, Governance, WTO Impacts on Education. Dr. Dormeier Freire has an extensive knowledge of current developmental issues in Southeast Asia and has worked with various regional institutions and universities.

Tel. +41 22 908 45 15
Email : alexandre.freire@graduateinstitute.ch

Senior Lecturer, Regional Coordinator  IMAS – Africa

A jurist by training (EPFZ), Dominique has been a member of the teaching faculty since 1997. Her fields of expertise deal with cooperation governance, with special emphasis on Africa, and the drafting and implementation of land-use and water management policies. She spent 10 years working in Mali and Cape Verde, in support of the national and communal urban development departments.

Tel. +41 22.908.4537
Email : dominique.rossier@graduateinstitute.ch

Senior Lecturer, Regional Coordinator IMAS - Latin America

Liliana has a Master in Political Science (Geneva and Lausanne Universities) and a Master in Development Studies (University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute, 1994).
For some 10 years, she was active in public planning and management in Colombia; among other responsibilities, she managed the planning department in the town of San José de Cucuta; implemented a pilot programme for participatory planning which brought together  social organisations and municipal administrations in the department of North of Santander. For several years, she worked as a scientific collaborator on a mandate from the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, aiming at facilitating the Colombian peace process. Currently, she is responsible, since its creation, for the Latin American regional branch of the IMAS -  International Executive Master in Development Studies.
Tel. : +41 22 908 43 87
Email : liliana.soler@graduateinstitute.ch

Administrator - IMAS

For several years, Eliane worked in the tourism industry before opening a playgroup and centre for parents and children. She sold the business after two years following an offer to join the airline industry, an area which had always interested her. The demise of Swissair put an end to this fruitful experience and after a short stint in the watch industry, she was offered the chance to work on the DFD Programme at the Institute of Development Studies, which later became the IMAS Programme.

Tel. +41 22 908 4384
Email : eliane.minassian@graduateinstitute.ch

Programme Assistant, Communication, Fundraising and Accreditation

Stéphanie has a diploma in management and administration. For 15 years she worked in the field of humanitarian and development assistance, first as a field-based administrator for the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), then as a development projects finance officer for a private Geneva-based foundation. In addition to her work with the IMAS, she is also responsible for administering and promoting Executive Education Short Courses on Strategic Management of development programmes.

Tel. : +41 22 908 43 86
Email : stephanie.roy@graduateinstitute.ch