Research Centres

The Graduate Institute's research centres provide a stimulating intellectual environment by promoting exchanges between professors and doctoral students and by strengthening expertise networks in subjects where Geneva and Switzerland have a comparative advantage. They offer a unique interface between the academic world and the international community thanks to their wide range of activities, including research and expertise, organising public debates, hosting researchers from around the world, and contributing to the Institute’s executive education courses.

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy

The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy explores the plurality of democratic experiences and aspirations in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.

Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism

The creation of the Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism is based on a strong conviction: that multilateralism must be able to rely on its century-old experience in Geneva to project itself with full confidence towards the future.

Centre for Finance and Development

The CFD is the Graduate Institute's centre of excellence for research on impact investing, sustainable finance and multilateral development finance.

Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability

The Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability (HCGS) is the result of the generous support of the Hoffmann Foundation.

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration

The Centre for Trade and Economic Integration is the Graduate Institute's Centre of Excellence for research on international trade.

Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding

The CCDP is the Graduate Institute’s focal point for research in the areas of conflict analysis, peacebuilding and the complex relationships between security and development.

Gender Centre

The Gender Centre is the focal point at the Geneva Graduate Institute for research exploring gender and its intersections with sexuality, race, class, international affairs, development, and global governance.

Global Governance Centre

The Global Governance Centre is dedicated to promoting critical reflection on the institutions, orthodoxies and practices that shape and organise global governance. It is also committed to exploring the visible and invisible problems of global governance, and encouraging the development of novel, creative and relevant ideas to address these.

Global Health Centre

The Global Health Centre (GHC), hosted by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva Graduate Institute), is a research, education and convening centre focusing on power, politics and governance in global health.

Global Migration Centre

The Global Migration Centre (GMC) conducts advanced research and provides policy-oriented expertise and publications on the multifaceted causes, patterns and consequences of global migration.