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 has 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 project 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 Masters in Public Administration. In his capacity as a teacher and researcher, his interests have 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 45 13
Email : daniel.fino@graduateinstitute.ch
Dr Alexandre Dormeier Freire
SOCIOLOGIST, SENIOR LECTURER, ACADEMIC COORDINATOR IMAS - ASIA
A sociologist, Dr Dormeier Freire has worked primarily on education and governance issues in Indonesia and Vietnam with a special focus on skills development, labour markets, social transformation and poverty reduction. He has published several articles and books, in French and English, on Vietnam and Indonesia, mainly on education-related topics. He is currently working on the social impacts of the WTO in Vietnam and the global challenges of educational systems in Asia. Tel +41 22 908 45 15
Email: alexandre.freire@graduateinstitute.ch
Dominique Rossier
SENIOR LECTURER, REGIONAL HEAD IMAS - AFRICA
A jurist by training (EPFZ), Dominique has been a member of the teaching faculty since 1997. Her fields of expertise deal with governance of cooperation, 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 45 37
Email: dominique.rossier@graduateinstitute.ch
Liliana Soler
SENIOR LECTURER, REGIONAL HEAD IMAS - LATIN AMERICA
Liliana has a Masters in Political Science (Geneva and Lausanne Universities) and a Masters 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 repsonsibilities, 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 Nord de 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 Master of Advanced Studies in Development Studies. Tel +41 22 908 43 87
Email: liliana.soler@graduateinstitute.ch
Eliane Minassian
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, albeit short, 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 43 84
Email: eliane.minassian@graduateinstitute.ch IMAS & Short Programmes Secretariat
20, Rue Rothschild (4th floor)
PO BOX 136
CH-1211 Geneva 21
Fax +41 22 908 62 74
Stéphanie Roy Michael
PROGRAMME ASSISTANT, ADMINISTRATOR, EXECUTIVE EDUCATION SHORT PROGRAMMES
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, 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 the Executive Education Short Course on "Finance and Management for Development".
Tel +41 22 908 43 86
Email: stephanie.roy@graduateinstitute.ch IMAS and Short Programmes Secretariat
20, Rue Rothschild (4th floor)
PO Box 136
CH-1211 Geneva 21
Fax +41 22 908 6274
