Profile
Adam Strobeyko is an affiliated researcher at the Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute. As the Principal Investigator for a Swiss National Science Foundation project, Adam's research focuses on the emerging international rules for the sharing of Genetic Sequence Data (GSD) and their impact on databases and companies.
Prior to his own project, Adam worked for Governing Pandemics initiative, organizing capacity-building workshops and publishing policy analyses on topics such as Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing, WHO negotiations, research and development, financing, One Health, and vaccine supply and allocation arrangements.
Adam holds a PhD in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute (distinction), a MA degree in International Public Management from Sciences Po Paris, and an LLB in European Law from Maastricht University. Adam was also Global Fellow at Guarini Global Law & Tech, NYU Law, and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at the Harvard Law School.
Adam is particularly interested in the role of law in addressing technological and scientific innovation.
Experience
- Principal Investigator, Access and Benefit Sharing, 2024-2025
- Rapporteur, WHO Ethics & Governance Sub-WG on Pandemic-Related Products
- Legal Researcher, Global Health Centre, 2021-2023
- Research Assistant, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legal-Treaty Department, 2017
- Teaching Assistant for interdisciplinary courses at the Graduate Institute, 2019-2021
Relevant Publications and Works
- Strobeyko, A. ‘A New Beginning for International Benefit-Sharing? Harmonising and Complying with Rules on Digital Sequence Information.’ CIL Dialogues, 23 February 2025.
- Strobeyko, A. et al. ‘Equitable access to pandemic products demands stronger public governance’. The Lancet, Vol. 404, No. 10467, 23 November 2024.
- Strobeyko, A. ‘The Future of Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing under International Law’. VerfBlog, 29 March 2024.
- Strobeyko, A. & Burci, G.L. ‘Towards Integrated Early Warning Systems: Review of Disaster Risk Reduction and One Health Approaches in Light of Pandemic Treaty Negotiations.’ Yearbook of International Disaster Law, Vol. 5, 2023, 358–381.
- Strobeyko, A. ‘Understanding pandemic financing and learning from other experiences’. Workshop report. Global Health Centre, the Graduate Institute, Geneva, 2024.
- Strobeyko, A. ‘The Person of the State: The Anthropomorphic Subject of the Law of Nations.’ Journal of the History of International Law, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2022, 36–69.
- Rizk, A.; Strobeyko, A.; Burci, G.L.; Moon, S. 'What are the options? Pathogen-, GSD- and Benefit- Sharing in an International Instrument’. Global Health Centre, the Graduate Institute, Geneva, 2022.
- Strobeyko, A. ‘Synthetic Biology and Emerging Risks’. Tech Hub, Global Health Centre.
- Strobeyko, A. 'Poland, Supreme Court, Nangar Khel Incident, the Judgment of the Supreme Court of Poland of 17 February 2016'. ICRC Casebook, 2020.
- Strobeyko, A. ‘Space for Change: The ASAT Tests in Outer Space in Light of the UN Liability Convention.’ Polish Review of International and European Law, Vol. 8, 2019, p. 91–102.
Fellowships, Grants and Awards
- Merit-based post-doctoral scholarship awarded by NYU Hauser Global Law School Program (2022)
- Merit-based scholarship awarded by the Hague Academy of International law (2019)
- Excellence scholarship awarded by the Graduate Institute (2018)
- Certificate of Excellence awarded by Peking University (2015)
- Certificate of Appreciation awarded by Maastricht University and Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and
- Technology, United Nations University (2014)