Faculty and Experts

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

Jean-Louis Arcand has been Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute since 2008. He is also associate editor of the Journal of African Economies and the Revue d'Economie du Développement, and Founding Fellow of the European Union Development Network (EUDN). He was assistant and then associate professor at the Université de Montréal, and professor at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches en Développement International (CERDI). His research focuses on the microeconomics of development, particularly in West Africa and the Maghreb, with a current focus on impact evaluation of social programmes. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the FAO and several national governments.

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

Richard Edward Baldwin has been Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute since 1991, and Policy Director of CEPR since 2006. He was Co-managing Editor of the Journal Economic Policy from 2000 to 2005, and Programme Director of CEPR’s International Trade programme from 1991 to 2001. Before that he was Senior Staff Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers in the Bush Administration (1990-1991). Prior to coming to Geneva, he was Associate Professor at Columbia University Business School, having done his Ph.D in economics at MIT with Paul Krugman. He was visiting professor at MIT in 2002/03 and has taught at universities in Italy, Germany and Norway. He has also worked as consultant for the European Commission, OECD, the World Bank, EFTA, USAID and UNCTAD. The author of numerous books and articles, his research interests include international trade, globalisation, regionalism and European integration.

VISITING LECTURER, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Manfred Elsig is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the WTI. He studied at the Universities of Bern and Bordeaux and earned a degree in political science. He worked from 1997–1999 at the Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs. He later joined the Political Science Institute of the University of Zurich and received his PhD (Dr Phil) in 2002. Before joining the WTI in 2005 as a Senior Research fellow, he was a teaching fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2002–2004 he worked for UBS financial services group and as a personal advisor to the Minister of Economy of Canton Zürich. His research focuses primarily on the politics of international trade, European trade policy, international organisations, US–EU relations, and private actors in global politics. He has published in international peer-reviewed journals including the European Journal of International Relations, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies and Global Society. He has extensive teaching experience, having taught at various Swiss universities, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Thunderbird School of Global Management. His courses include International Political Economy (IPE), trade diplomacy, international institutions, globalisation and European integration, and research methods. Currently, he is visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE

Cédric Dupont is Professor of Political Science and Director of Executive Education at the Graduate Institute. 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 in 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 consulted with leading multinational corporations on non-market strategies inside regional trading arrangements, with a particular focus on Western Europe and the Asia-Pacific.

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, WTO

Patrick Low is Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute and Director of Economic Research and Statistics Division at the WTO. Prior to that he worked for two years as Director of the Office of the Director-General and before that as Director of Economic Research and Analysis and also as Counsellor in WTO's Trade in Services Division. From 1990-1994, he worked in the International Trade Division of the World Bank. He taught at El Colegio de México in Mexico City and worked as a consultant for several international organisations, including the World Bank, UNCTAD, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank, and for the Governments of Botswana, Kenya , Mexico and Venezuela. He holds a Ph.D in Economics from Sussex University in the United Kingdom  and has written on a range of trade policy issues.

PROFESSOR, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Mark MacCarthy is adjunct Professor at the graduate program in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University.  He teaches and researches technology policy issues, including information privacy, information security in the financial services industry, Internet governance and freedom, liability for Internet intermediaries, and the development of electronic media. He is the author of scholarly articles on information privacy, security and intermediary liability. He teaches undergraduate course in privacy and political philosophy in Georgetown University’s Philosophy Department. He is also Vice President for Public Policy at the Software & Information Industry Association, where he advises global software and digital content companies on information privacy and security policy, global policy toward cloud computing, technology and trade policy, intellectual property enforcement and the government development and support of educational technology.  He is an Affiliate of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business Center for Business and Public Policy. He has been a consultant on technology policy issues for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and for the Aspen Institute.