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Guest Lectures
High-level speakers are regularly invited to meet with participants to present their professional challenges and dialogue on current issues related to international negotiation.
Past editions of the Executive Master INP have included the following guests :
 Sergio Balibrea
First Counselor at the Permanent Delegation of the European Union to the International Organisations in Geneva.
Panel
Leadership in World Affairs
Biography
Sergio Balibrea is First Counsellor at the EU Delegation to the WTO and UN in Geneva, in charge of Intellectual property, Trade defence and Competition. He also serves as EU's spokesperson in Geneva. EU Delegations are the diplomatic offices of the European Union and represent the trade interests of its 27 Member States around the world. With 17 years of experience in EU trade diplomacy, Mr. Balibrea has held several posts including Head of "Trade and Economics" at the EU Delegation in Beijing, where he handled EU-China trade relations during a key period in China's rise (2002-06). Before that, Mr. Balibrea served in Brussels as EU Services negotiator on WTO matters and led on China’s accession to the WTO. He is a guest lecturer at various universities including Thunderbird School of Global Management, and is a member of the Spanish law bar. Mr Balibrea holds a LLM in International and EU law from Louvain in Belgium and a Law degree from Barcelona in Spain.
Date
28 May 2010
SVen Lingjaerde
Managing Partner, Endeavour Vision
Panel
Leadership in World Affairs
Biography
Sven is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Endeavour Vision. In 1996, he co-founded Vision Capital, a Trans-Atlantic technology venture capital firm with €140 million under management. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Genevest, a Swiss venture capital firm that he joined in 1987. Through his leadership, Genevest developed an excellent track record of early to late stage investments in High Tech and Biotech ventures on both sides of the Atlantic. With 20 years of Venture Capital experience, Sven has developed an extensive network in Europe, Silicon Valley, the Middle East and India. This network of contacts was leveraged through the European Tech Tour Association that he founded in 1998. Sven studied business administration at HEC, Lausanne, Switzerland and graduated from the ECADE business school, also in Lausanne. Favourite question to entrepreneurs: « What would it take to grow faster? »
Date
28 May 2010
Jacques Marcovitch
Professor at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council member on the Future of Latin America
Panel
Leadership in World Affairs
Biography
Professor of Strategy and International Affairs, University of São Paulo; Senior Adviser, World Economic Forum; Steering Committee Chair: two year multi-institutional report on Economics of Climate Change in Brazil; Member of the Management Board, Sustainable Amazon Foundation; Member of the Advisory Board, Nestlé; Council Member and President, Bunge Foundation, Brazil. Author of several books and editor, Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Brazil: Priorities for Change (2007), awarded Brazil's 2008 Jabuti Prize for Best Book in Economics and Business. Recipient of awards: Chevalier de la Legion d´Honneur, France; Medal of Scientific Merit, Brazil.
Date
28 May 2010
Barry Wilson
Former President of Medtronic International
Current board memberof several international enterprises and organizations
Panel
Leadership in World Affairs
Biography
Mr. Wilson is currently Chairman of Heartscape Technologies and serves on the Board of Directors of Anecova, NextPharma Technologies, Welch Allyn and The Rezidor Hotel Group. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Golden Age Fund of Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch and he advises several Private Equity and Venture Capital organizations.
Barry W. Wilson is an international executive with 40+ years of experience in both the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. He has served as President of Medtronic International, President of Lederle International, prior to its merger with Wyeth, and President of Bristol Myers Squibb Europe. He had nine international assignments with Pfizer.
Date
28 May 2010
Moustapha Kamal Gueye
United Nations Environment Programme
Lecture
Negotiating Climate: What Happened in Copenhagen?
Biography
Moustapha Kamal Gueye is the Economic Affairs Officer at UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economy Economics and Trade Branch in Geneva. He works on the Green Economy Initiative.
The UNEP-led Green Economy Initiative assists governments in shaping and focusing policies, investments and spe
nding towards a range of green sectors, such as clean technologies, industry, renewable energies, water services, transport, waste management, green buildings, and sustainable agriculture and forests, as a mean of promoting sustainable economic growth, decent job creation, and poverty reduction, while at the same time reducing greenhouse gas emissions, extracting and using less natural resources and creating less waste.
From 2006 to early 2009 Kamal served as Senior Programme Manager Environment Cluster at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in Geneva.
Previously, he worked and researched for over ten years across Asia, managing policy research projects on energy and environment in China and India at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Japan.
From 1994-1995, he consulted for the FAO on fisheries law and policy in Africa.
Kamal advised Toyota Motor Corporation World Convention 2003 on environmental and social initiatives for sustainable development in Africa.
He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Tokyo. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Foreign Investment and Regional Economic Integration in Southeast Asia from Nagoya University, Japan; a post-graduate degree and LL.M. in International Economic Law from Dakar University, Senegal, and several executive certificates including from the World Bank Institute in Washington; the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) in Japan; and the Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) in India. He was a lead author of UNEP Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4). Kamal speaks English, French, Japanese and Wolof.
Date
26 March 2010
Richard Golding
UN Global Relationship Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Lecture
Negotiating Climate: What Happened in Copenhagen?
Biography
Richard Golding is currently PwC’s Global Relationship Partner (GRP) for the United Nations System and The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria. He is based in PwC Geneva, Switzerland. He is also a member of PwC’s International Development Assistance Steering Committee which co-ordinates PwC’s work funded by the major multilateral development organizations such as the UN, World Bank, European Commission and Regional Development Banks. As GRP, Richard’s principle role is to ensure that PwC maximizes the quality of its client relationships and services anywhere in the world.
Richard is originally a UK Public Sector chartered accountant (CIPFA) and has more than 30 years experience in both private and public sectors in the fields of Governance, Sustainability, Process Improvement, Risk Management, Information Technology and International Development.
He joined PwC in 1987 and was admitted to partnership in 1996. He is a UK citizen, resident in Switzerland and speaks English and French.
Against such a background, Richard has some unique perspectives on matters of global governance, accountability and funding models with multilateral organizations and evolution of public / private partnerships.
Date
26 March 2010
ANTONIO MARIN
Senior Crude Oil Trader, Gunvor International
Lecture
Crude Oil, International Crude Oil Trading and Price Formation
Biography
Antonio Marin graduated as MD. Ingeniero de Caminos from the E.T.S. de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) and PDD by IESE (Universidad de Navarra). He joined the Coastal States Trading Houston in 1985 and ever since he's always been trading crude oil, crude oil products and oil futures in several companies and in different countries. In 2005, he became a co-founder of Castor Petroleum; a trading company specialized in the North and South American crude oil markets. Finally, in 2007 he moved to Gunvor S.A. where he is presently trading as a senior crude oil trader. Antonio also lectured at EPFL (Laussane), Club de la Energia (Madrid),Petroperu (Lima) and Petroecuador (Quito).
Date
26 February 2010, 6 May 2011
CHRISTY HOFFMAN
UNI Organising Director for the Property Services' Department
Panel
Leadership in World Affairs
Biography
Christy Hoffman first joined UNI in 2004 as the Organizing Director of the UNI Property Services Global Union.
Her work at UNI followed more than 25 years of ―soup to nuts‖ experience as a U.S. based trade unionist, beginning with her role as the Chief Steward on the floor of a large jet engine factory.
After seven years as a rank and file leader and activist in Connecticut, Christy left her local union to become an organizer and national representative for the International Association of Machinists, recognizing that the hard fought gains for industrial workers were impossible to achieve and maintain if the broader environment was non-union.
In 1990, Christy began her work as an attorney for the United Mine Workers of America, An accomplished litigator, later in her career she practiced labor law as the Associate General Counsel for both the Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union.
She has extensive experience as a negotiator and campaign strategist, playing a key role in some of the well known US labor struggles and victories of recent decades and developing relationships with some of the world’s biggest multinational employers.
With UNI, she served as the Organising Director of the UNI Property Services Global Union from 2004 to 2008. She was a leader of the US Anti-Apartheid movement in the late seventies. While in college, she worked at the OECD Development unit, in Paris, France.
Christy has a law degree with honors from New York University, and a BA (Hons) with a thesis in Development Economics from Smith College.
Date
27 May 2011
Amb. MICHAEL REITERER
Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein
Panel
Leadership in World Affairs
Biography
Ambassador Michael Reiterer is the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein. Among his previous assignments, he was Minister, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Japan; and Counsellor-ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) for the European Commission, Directorate General External Relations in Brussels, Belgium. Other previous positions include Minister-Counsellor (industrial, commercial affairs) at the Permanent Representation of
Austria to the EU in Brussels, at the same time as Counsellor of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) of the EU. His professional trajectory includes as well positions for the OECD, the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and the Austrian Permanent Mission to the GATT.
He holds a Doctor juris diplomas from the University of Innsbruck: (1978), in which he taught international politics as an adjunct professor. He also holds degrees in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center, Italy; and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He has also taught at the Universities of Vienna, Linz, the Higher School for International Economic Relations, Eisenstadt and the Diplomatic Academy (Vienna), among others. He has published extensively on international law and international relations, trade and environment, Asia-Europe relationship, EU foreign and trade policy, and inter-regionalism.
Date
27 May 2011
CARL GUSTAF LUNDIN
Head of the Global Marine Programme, IUCN.
Panel
Leadership in World Affairs
Biography
Fil. Lic. Carl Gustaf Lundin joined IUCN as head of the Global Marine Programme in November 2001. His primary responsibility is to develop the program in four areas: marine protected areas; building partnerships for conservation of ecosystems and endangered marine species; sustainable fisheries management; and climate change effects on marine resources. He is responsible for all aspects of managing the program as well as fundraising and development of public information materials.
Before joining IUCN he worked with the World Bank for more than 12 years. His primary focus was coastal and marine management issues in several regions of the world including Argentina Coastal Contamination and Marine Pollution project; China Coastal Development Project; Eritrea Port Project; Indonesia Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project; Mexico's Natural Protected Areas Project 1 + 2; Mesoamerican Biological Corridor Project; Aquaculture Development Project; Seychelles Biodiversity and Marine Pollution Project; and the Uruguay Maritime Management Project. He has worked on a wide range of reports and publications in this field as well.
He received a Bachelors degree in Biology from Uppsala University in his native Sweden, and a Licentiate in Philosophy, Natural Resources Management, from Stockholm University.
Date
27 May 2011
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