The Institute is pleased to announce the creation of the Centre for Finance and Development in partnership with the Pictet Foundation. The Centre is dedicated to research in the interrelated areas of international finance, development economics, and financial history. It situates the Graduate Institute at the forefront of this promising field of study.

The Centre's Director is Professor Jean-Louis Arcand and it benefits from the expertise of three new professors, Ugo Panizza, Yi Huang, and Lore Vandewalle as well as a half dozen other eminent scholars including Marc Flandreau, Cédric Tille and Charles Wyplosz. Its mission is to carry out high-level research, to provide commissioned expertise and executive education modules, and to be a forum for forward-looking reflection. Thanks to the Centre, the Institute will also strengthen its students' knowledge of the role of finance in world affairs, especially in the field of development. This the eighth of the Institute's centres and research programmes.

The official inauguration of the Centre will take place on Wednesday, 21 November and will feature a lecture by Ricardo Hausmann, Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.

The Pictet Foundation, founded by Ivan Pictet, has provided the Institute with CHF 25 million in capital to support the creation of the Centre for Finance and Development and the construction of the Portail des nations, which will be a part of the future Campus de la paix.

A special section of the 10th edition Institute's magazine Globe was dedicated to the Centre.
The French version of an article by Jean-Louis Arcand from Globe on the Centre's research was published in Le Temps in French on 20 November 2012. Read the article.
An article by Ugo Panizza was also published in Le Temps on 13 November 2012. Read the article.

Click here for the PDF version of the press release announcing the inauguration.

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AGEFI: L’Institut ouvre un nouveau centre de recherche en finance et développement économique avec la Fondation Pictet