Global Crisis : leaders

PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE

Faculty member with the Graduate Institute Political Science Department since 1995, Professor Dupont is also the Director of International and Executive Education programmes at the Institute. He is the editor of the Swiss Political Science Review and Associate Editor for Europe of the journal Business and Politics. His research focuses on international political economic issues, both at the global and regional levels, on the problem of international cooperation, and international negotiation processes. His current work concentrates on regionalism in Asia, national responses to international economic crises, the management of jurisdictional boundaries between international organisations as well as the factors which influence trade negotiations in the European Union.

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Faculty member since 2007, he was previously an economist at the International Research Department Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His research interests cover several aspects of the international transmission of fluctuations and economic policies: financial globalization and its impact on the transmission of macroeconomic fluctuations, the determinants of the allocation of financial investment in an international context and the impact on financial flows and finally, the determinants of the dominance of certain currencies in international trade and the consequences for the conduct of macroeconomic policy.

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
PICTET CHAIR IN FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT

Ugo Panizza was named Professor at the Institute in 2012 and is Deputy-Director of the Institute’s new Centre on Finance and Development. Ugo Panizza has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute since 2008, a position he held in addition to being the Chief of the Debt and Finance Analysis Unit at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Previously, he worked at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, alongside holding teaching and research posts at the American University of Beirut and the University of Turin. Professor Panizza’s research interests include international finance, sovereign debt, banking, and political economy. Professor Panizza’s recent work includes a series of important articles on the costs of sovereign defaults, on the links between public debt and economic growth, and research with Professor Arcand and Enrico Berkes, of the IMF, on the threshold above which financial development no longer has a positive effect on economic growth. Together with Barry Eichengreen of the University of California, Berkeley and Ricardo Hausmann of Harvard’s Kennedy School, he did work on the causes and consequences of “original sin” in international finance. He has also worked with Eichengreen on capital account liberalisation and bond market development. Professor Panizza's research is wide-ranging and has covered areas such as income inequality, public sector labor market, and the relatiosnhip between religion and the education gender gap.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES
Jasmine Champenois has an MA amd Ph.D from the Institute (HEI, 2006). She also studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (France) and has been a Visiting fellow at the University of Oxford (2003-2004) and at McGill University, Montreal (1998-1999). Her activities focus on international education networks and e-learning coordination.