Professors

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

Jean-Louis Arcand is Professor of International Economics and Professor and Chair of Development Studies at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He 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,  Founding Fellow of the European Union Development Network (EUDN) and Senior Fellow at the Fondation pour les études et recherches en développement international (FERDI). 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). He holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. His research focuses on the microeconomics of development, with a current focus on impact evaluation of social programs in West Africa and the Maghreb. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the FAO, the UNDP, the Gates Foundation and several national governments. He is currently leading multi-year impact evaluations in Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, The Cameroon, The Gambia, Mali, Morocco, and Senegal, with the topics being investigated ranging from peer mentoring to fight HIV-AIDS, to capacity-building in rural producer organizations to foster food security.

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL LAW

PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE

Thomas Biersteker is the first holder of the Curt Gasteyger Chair in International Security and Conflict Studies, established thanks to the support of the APESI to honour Professor Gasteyger, HEI professor emeritus. The author/editor of nine books, including State Sovereignty as Social Construct, The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance, and Countering the Financing of Terrorism, Biersteker’s research focuses primarily on international relations theory and economic aspects of contemporary global security issues.

His recent activities include work with the UN Secretariat and the governments of Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany on the design of targeted sanctions.
He was previously Professor of Political Science at Brown University where he served for many years as Director of the Watson Institute for International Studies. He has also taught at Yale University and at the University of Southern California. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, and a Fellow of the Club of Madrid.

PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE

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.

VISITING LECTURER, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

HEAD OF RESEARCH, CENTRE ON CONFLICT, DEVELOPMENT AND PEACEBUILDING (CCDP)

Oliver Jütersonke has a doctorate from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, a Diplôme d’Etudes Superieures (DES) from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Politics with First Class Honours from the University of Exeter. Before becoming the Head of Research for the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) in 2008, he worked for six years at the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies (PSIS). He has taught graduate-level seminars and diplomatic training sessions on the subjects of peacebuilding, fragile states, and the responsibility to protect, and has been a post-doctoral research fellow at the Zurich University Centre for Ethics (ZUCE) since 2007.

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS & 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.
 

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT

Trained as a social anthropologist, Dr. Alessandro Monsutti (PhD, University of Neuchatel) became a member of the faculty in 2010, after having taught at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies from 2003 to 2007. He has been research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (1999-2000) and Yale University (2008-2010), as well as a grantee of the MacArthur Foundation (2004-2006). He has also been Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford) and the Laboratoire d’anthropologie des institutions et des organisations sociales (National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris). In addition, he has worked as a consultant for organisations such as the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation as well as the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit.
Alessandro Monsutti has conducted multi-sited research since the mid-1990s in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to study the modes of solidarity and cooperation mobilised in a situation of conflict and forced migration. He has subsequently broadened the geographical scope of his research to include members of the Afghan diaspora living in Western countries.

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS

PhD from the Graduate Institute (HEI), Davide Rodogno was visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics (2002-04), research fellow at the IHTP in Paris (2004-05), RCUK academic fellow at the School of History – University of St Andrews since 2005, and visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute (HEI 2005-06). Since 2008, he is Professor with a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Prof. boursier) and leads a research project on the history of humanitarian international associations during the nineteenth and twentieth century (1850-1950). He has published his first monograph in Italian (Il Nuovo Ordine Mediterraneo, Bollati Boringhieri, 2003) and English, (Fascism’s European Empire, CUP, 2006) and is completing a second monograph whose tentative title is: Against Massacre: the emergence of the concept and international practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century (1815-1914).

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

Alexander Swoboda, a Swiss national, was Professor of International Economics at the Graduate  Institute of International Studies which he directed from 1990 to 1998. In addition, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Geneva as well as a Board Member and the Founding Director of the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies. From October 1998 to December 2000, while on leave from the Graduate  Institute, Professor Swoboda was Senior Policy Advisor and Resident Scholar at the International Monetary Fund.
Professor Swoboda specializes in international monetary and financial issues. His research has centered on macroeconomics, international capital markets, the international transmission of inflation and business cycles, policy coordination, and monetary unions. He is also well known as an analyst of Euro-currency markets and international banking issues. He has been the recipient of various research fellowships and grants and has directed several major research projects, financed notably by the Ford Foundation, the British Social Science Research Council and the Swiss National Science Foundation.
He studied economics at Yale University where he earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. (1966) and was the Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Chicago in 1966-67. He has taught at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Lausanne and at Harvard University. Professor Swoboda was elected to the Council of the Swiss National Bank in 1997. He serves on the board of several non-profit foundations, has been an occasional consultant to private financial, governmental and international institutions (including the World Bank), has been an adviser to various bodies and is a regular participant in major international monetary and financial conferences. He was elected President of the Swiss Society for Economics and Statistics in June 2002.

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL LAW

Professor Viñuales joined the Institute's Law Faculty in 2009. He is also Counsel with the law firm Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, Geneva, as well as the Executive Director of the Latin American Society of International Law. He is currently active both as an academic and a practitioner in the fields of international environmental law and natural resources as well as international investment law and arbitration. Before joining the Institute, he was a full-time practitioner specializing in international investment law. He worked on many cases under ICSID, UNCITRAL, PCA, ICC or LCIA rules, including several high profile inter-State or investor-State disputes. He also served as consultant or provided advice on different matters of international law to companies, governments, international organizations or major NGOs. Professor Viñuales was educated in France (Doctorat - Sciences Po Paris), the United States (LL.M. - Harvard Law School), Switzerland (D.E.A./licence in international relations - HEI; lic. iur. - University of Fribourg; D.E.A./licence in political science - University of Geneva), and Argentina (Abogado – UNICEN). He is a member of the New York and Buenos Aires Bars as well as of numerous professional and academic organizations, including the London Court of International Arbitration, the Swiss Arbitration Association, the Spanish Arbitration Committee, the European Society of International Law, the Société française pour le droit international, the Argentine Centre for International Studies, the Harvard Clubs of Switzerland and Europe, the Sciences Po Alumni Association, the HEI Alumni Association, and others. He is also a former board member of Harvard's International Law Society.

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL HISTORY

Faculty member since 1996, Professor Xiang was previously Associate Professor at Clemson University, United States. He held the Kissinger Chair of Foreign Policy and International Relations (2003-2004) at the Library of Congress, United States. He founded the Trilateral Forum for top-level policy-makers to discuss China. He was McArthur Foundation Fellow in Germany (1989), and Olin Fellow at Yale University (2003). Professor Xiang has held chairs at Fudan University in Shanghai and China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. He is a contributing editor for the publication Survival at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London, and Dushu Magazine in Beijing. His main research focus is East Asia, foreign and security policies, and modern China. His main publications include: "Tradition and Chinese Foreign Relations", "The Origins of the Boxer War" (2003, Chinese version nominated for national book awards), "Recasting the Imperial Far East" (2005), and "Mao’s Generals" (1998).