Graduate Institute For International Studies

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, or the Geneva Graduate Institute (french: Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement), abbreviated IHEID, is a government-accredited postgraduate institution of higher education located in Geneva, Switzerland. The current Geneva Graduate Institute was formed by a merger between the Graduate Institute of International Studies (french: Institut des hautes études internationales, abbreviated IHEI or HEI) and the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (, abbreviated IUED) in 2008.

The institution counts one UN secretary-general ( Kofi Annan), seven Nobel Prize recipients, one Pulitzer Prize winner, and numerous ambassadors, foreign ministers, and heads of state among its alumni and faculty. Founded by two senior League of Nations officials, the Graduate Institute maintains strong links with that international organisation's successor, the United Nations, and many alumni have gone on to work at UN agencies.

Admission to the Graduate Institute's study programmes is highly competitive, with a selection rate of only 14% of applicants.

Founded in 1927, the ''Graduate Institute of International Studies'' (''IHEI'' or ''HEI'') was continental Europe's oldest school of international relations and was the world's first graduate institute dedicated solely to the study of international affairs. It offered one of the first doctoral programmes in international relations in the world. In 2008, the Graduate Institute absorbed the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, a smaller postgraduate institution also based in Geneva founded in 1961. The merger resulted in the current Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Today the school enrolls close to a thousand postgraduate students from over 100 countries. Foreign students make up nearly 90% of the student body and the school is officially a bilingual English-French institution, although the majority of classes are in English. With Maison de la Paix acting as its primary seat of learning, the institute's campuses are located blocks from the United Nations Office at Geneva, International Labour Organization, World Trade Organization, World Health Organization, International Committee of the Red Cross, World Intellectual Property Organization and many other international organisations.

It runs joint degree programmes with universities such as Smith College and Yale University, and is Harvard Kennedy School's only partner institution to co-deliver double degrees. The school is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), a group of schools that specialize in public policy, public administration, and international affairs.

History

The Graduate Institute of International Studies was co-founded in 1927 by two scholar-diplomats working for the League of Nations Secretariat: the Swiss William Rappard, director of the Mandates Section, and the Frenchman Paul Mantoux, director of the Political Section. A bilingual institution like the League, it was to train personnel for the nascent international organisation. Its co-founder, Rappard, served as director from 1928 to 1955.

The institute's original mandate was based on a close working relationship with both the League of Nations and the International Labour Organization. It was agreed that in exchange for training staff and delegates, the Institute would receive intellectual resources and diplomatic expertise (guest lecturers, etc.) from the aforementioned organisations. According to its statutes, the Graduate Institute was "an institution intended to provide students of all nations the means of undertaking and pursuing international studies, most notably of a historic, judicial, economic, political and social nature."

The institute managed to attract a number of eminent faculty and lecturers, particularly from countries mired in oppressive Nazi regimes, e.g., and Georges Scelle for law, Maurice Bourquin for diplomatic history, and the rising young Swiss jurist, Paul Guggenheim. Indeed, it is said that William Rappard had observed, ironically, that the two men to whom the Institute owed its greatest debt were Mussolini and Hitler. Subsequently, more noted scholars would join the institute's faculty. Hans Kelsen, the well-known theorist and philosopher of law, Guglielmo Ferrero, Italian historian, and Carl Burckhardt, scholar and diplomat all called the Graduate Institute home. Other arrivals, similarly seeking refuge from dictatorships, included the eminent free market economy historian, Ludwig von Mises, and another economist, Wilhelm Ropke, who greatly influenced German postwar liberal economic policy as well as the development of the theory of a social market system.

After a number of years, the Institute had developed a system whereby ''cours temporaires'' were given by prominent intellectuals on a week, semester, or yearlong basis. These cours temporaires were the intellectual showcase of the institute, attracting such names as Raymond Aron, René Cassin, Luigi Einaudi, John Kenneth Galbraith, G. P. Gooch, Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich von Hayek, Hersch Lauterpacht, Lord McNair, Gunnar Myrdal, Harold Nicolson, Philip Noel Baker, Pierre Renouvin, Lionel Robbins, , Count Carlo Sforza, Jacob Viner, and Martin Wight.

Another cours temporaire professor, Montagu Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, Sir Alfred Zimmern, left a particularly lasting mark on the institute. As early as 1924, while serving on the staff of the International Council for intellectual Cooperation in Paris, Zimmern began organizing international affairs summer schools under the auspices of the University of Geneva, 'Zimmern schools', as they became known. The initiative operated in parallel with the early planning for the launch of the Graduate Institute and the experience acquired by the former helped to shape the latter.

Despite its small size, (before the 1980s the faculty never exceeded 25 members), the Institute boasts four faculty members who have received Nobel Prizes for economics – Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek, Maurice Allais, and Robert Mundell. Three alumni have been Nobel laureates.

For a period of almost thirty years (1927–1954) the school was funded predominantly through the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. Since then the canton of Geneva and the Swiss Federal Council bear most of the costs associated with the institute. This transfer of financial responsibility coincided with the 1955 arrival of William Rappard's successor as director of the institute, Lausanne historian Jacques Freymond. Freymond inaugurated a period of great expansion, increasing the range of subjects taught and the number of both students and faculty, a process that continued well after his retirement in 1978. Under Freymond's tenure, the Graduate Institute hosted many international colloquia that discussed preconditions for East–West negotiations, relations with China and its rising influence in world affairs, European integration, techniques and results of politico-socioeconomic forecasting (the famous early Club of Rome reports, and the Futuribles project led by Bertrand de Jouvenel), the causes and possible antidotes to terrorism, Pugwash Conference concerns and much more. Freymond's term also saw many landmark publications, including the Treatise on international law by Professor Paul Guggenheim and the six-volume compilation of historical documents relating to the Communist International.

The parallel history of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (, IUED) also involves Freymond, who founded the institution in 1961 as the ''Institut Africain de Genève'', or African Institute of Geneva. The Graduate Institute of Development Studies was among the pioneer institutions in Europe to develop the scholarly field of sustainable development. The school was also known for the critical view of many of its professors on development aid, as well as for its journal, the ''Cahiers de l'IUED'' It was at the center of a huge international network.

Recent merger

In 2008, the Graduate Institute of International Studies (), absorbed the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (), to create the current ''Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies'' (IHEID).

Academics

Admission to the Graduate Institute's study programmes is highly competitive, with only 14% of applicants attending the Graduate Institute in 2014. The Institute awards its own degrees.
It does not award undergraduate degrees.

Ranking

As a small institution offering exclusively master's and PhD programmes, the institute does not participate in popular university ranking.

In ''Foreign Policys 2014 ''Inside the Ivory Tower'' ranking of best international relations schools in the world, the Graduate Institute's master's program was ranked 24th among Master's Programs for Policy Career in International Relations. It ranked 29th in 2018.
In 2012, The Graduate Institute was listed among the Foreign Policy Association's "Top 50 International Affairs Graduate Programs."

The LL.M. in international dispute settlement, offered jointly with the University of Geneva by the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement, was ranked second worldwide according to a 2012 survey of law firms conducted by the Global Arbitration Review. This same LL.M. also consistently featured in the top 10 LL.M. for alternative dispute resolution by the specialised website LLM-guide.

The Graduate Institute's LL.M. in international law also featured in the top 10 LL.M. for public international law compiled by LLM-guide.

The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights' LL.M. in international humanitarian law and human rights—a joint programme between the Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva—also featured in LLM-guide's top 10 LL.M. programmes for human rights law.

Degree programmes

Master of Arts in International Affairs (MIA)

The MIA is an intensive two-year interdisciplinary Master programme which begins with a rigorous foundation in quantitative and qualitative methods and in all the disciplines of the institute. In addition to their coursework, students must typically complete a capstone applied research project, two skills workshops, and a thesis between 15,000 and 25,000 words. Students can choose to specialize in one of three thematic tracks: Trade & International Finance; Global Security; and Environment, Resources & Sustainability.

Master of Arts in Development Studies (MDEV)

The MDEV is an intensive two-year interdisciplinary Master programme which begins with a rigorous foundation in quantitative and qualitative methods and in all the disciplines of the institute. In addition to their coursework, students must typically complete a capstone applied research project, two skills workshops, and a thesis between 15,000 and 25,000 words. Students can choose to specialize in one of three thematic tracks: Mobilities, Spaces & Cities; Power, Conflict & Development; and Environment, Resources & Sustainability.

Disciplinary Master's degree (MA/MPhil/LLM Res equivalent)

An advanced disciplinary two-year master's programme is offered by each of the Graduate Institute's five academic departments: Anthropology & Sociology, International Economics, International History, International Law, and International Relations & Political Science. In general, the disciplinary programme includes taught coursework and workshops that prepare students for conducting research and writing their master's thesis during their final semester. As regards the law programme, the first year is substantively equivalent to an LLM, whereas the second year is designed to prepare students for studies at the doctoral level.

In addition, a number of students transition during the MPhil to PhD status by way of the Fast Track programme.

Doctorate (PhD)

PhD students specialize in one disciplinary field. PhD candidates who wish to carry out bi-disciplinary research choose a main discipline (a major) and a second discipline (a minor).

Executive masters

Executive education programmes include masters in International Law, International Negotiation and Policy-Making, Development Policies and Practices.

Partnerships

The Graduate Institute has established joint or dual degree programmes with: the MPA programme at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; the LLM in Global Health Law programme at the Georgetown University's Law Center; the BA programme at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs; the BA programme at Peking University; the BA programme at Smith College; the BA programme at Wellesley College; the BA programme at the University of Hong Kong, and with the University of Geneva's LLM in International Dispute Settlement, LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Master's in Transitional Justice, and Master's of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action.

Apart from the dual/joint degree programmes, students also have the option to spend an exchange semester at Georgetown Law School, Harvard Law School, Michigan Law School, UCLA School of Law, Boston University School of Law, Yale University, the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, School of International Service at American University in Washington D.C., Northwestern University, University of Toronto, Sciences Po Paris – Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Bocconi University in Italy, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Italy, Central European University in Vienna, the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Peking University, KIMEP University, Gadjah Mada University, the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Malaya, the American University in Cairo, Boğaziçi University in Turkey, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, El Colegio de México, the Uniandes, the University of Ghana, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Stellenbosch University, as well as the University of St. Gallen and ETH Zürich in Switzerland.

Furthermore, the Graduate Institute is an active member of the following associations and academic networks:
* APSIA – Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs: academic institutions specialising in international relations and international public policy are represented among APSIA's thirty-odd members.
*European University Association: Represents and supports more than 850 institutions of higher education in 46 countries, providing them with a forum for cooperation and exchange of information on higher education and research policies.
* Europaeum: Created at the initiative of the University of Oxford, the Europaeum is composed of ten leading European institutions of higher education and research.
*European Consortium for Political Research: The ECPR is an independent scholarly association that supports the training, research and cross-national cooperation of many thousands of academics and graduate students specialising in political science and all its sub-disciplines.
*European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes: The EADI is the largest existing network of research and training institutes active in the field of development studies.
* Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie: The AUF supports the build-up a French-language research area between French-speaking universities. The institute is one of 536 members belonging to the AUF and takes part in its exchange programmes in the fields of teaching and research.
* Swiss University Conference: The SUC is a governmental organisation tasked with accrediting officially recognized Swiss universities.

Campus

The Campus de la paix is a network of buildings extending from Place des Nations (the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva) to the shores of Lake Geneva, spanning two public parks – and .

Maison de la paix

The Graduate Institute's main campus is the Maison de la paix (literally "House of Peace"), which opened in 2013. The Maison de la Paix is a 38,000 meter-square glass building distributed into six connected sections. It contains the Davis Library, which holds 350,000 books about social sciences, journals and annual publications, making it one of Europe's richest libraries in the fields of development and international relations. It is named after two Institute alumni—Ambassador Shelby Cullom Davis and his wife Kathryn Davis, following the Davis' $10 million donation to the institute.

The neighboring Picciotto Student Residence was completed in 2012 and provides 135 apartments for students and visiting professors. Another, larger student residence, the Grand Morillon Student Residence, opened in 2021. Japanese architect Kengo Kuma designed the 680-bed student housing building.

In addition to serving as the institute's main campus, the Maison de la paix also houses policy centres and advocacy groups with close ties to the Institute such as the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, Interpeace, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Historic villas

Another section of the campus are two historic villas situated by Lake Geneva, Villa Barton and Villa Moynier. Villa Barton served as the institute's main campus for most of the school's history. It now mostly houses administrative staff. Villa Moynier, created in 2001 and which opened in October 2009, houses the Institute-based Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement. The building holds a symbolic significance as it was originally owned by Gustave Moynier, co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and subsequently used by the League of Nations and as the headquarters of the ICRC between 1933 and 1946.

Research

The institute's research activities are conducted both at fundamental and applied levels with the objective of bringing analysis to international actors, private or public, of main contemporary issues. These research activities are conducted by the faculty of the institute, as part of their individual work, or by interdisciplinary teams within centres and programmes whose activity focus on these main fields:
*Conflict, security, and peacebuilding
*Development policies and practices
*Culture, religion, and identity
*Dispute settlement
*Environment and natural resources
*Finance and development
*Gender
*Globalisation
*Governance
*Humanitarian action
*Migration and refugees
*Non-state actors and civil society
*Rural development
*Trade, regionalism, and integration

Furthermore, the Graduate Institute is home to the Swiss Chair of Human Rights, the Curt Gasteyger Chair in International Security and Conflict Studies, the André Hoffmann Chair in Environmental Economics, the Pictet Chair in Finance and Development, the Swiss Chair of International Humanitarian Law, and the Claude Ségré Chair on Conservation and Development.

Programmes and research centres

The centres and programmes of the Institute distribute analysis and research that contributes to the analysis of international organisations headquartered in Geneva:
*The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding is for research in the areas of conflict analysis, peacebuilding, and the complex relationships between security and development.
*The Centre for International Environmental Studies was established in 2010 for the purpose of developing political, legal and economic discourse on problems related to the global environment.
*The Centre for Trade and Economic Integration brings together the research activities of eminent professors of economics, law and political science in the area of trade, economic integration and globalization. The Centre provides a forum for discussion and dialogue between the global research community, including the institute's student body and research centres in the developing world, and the international business community, as well as international organisations and NGOs.
*The Centre for Finance and Development's research deals with finance and development at three levels: international finance, and development finance in particular, including the role played by the international financial institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank; financial development, including banking and financial sector development in emerging and developing countries, both from contemporary and historical perspectives; microeconomics of finance and development.
*The Global Governance Centre provides a forum for scholars of governance and international organisations to interact with practitioners from the policy world in order to analyse global governance arrangements across a variety of issues.
*The Global Health Centre's activities focus on two pillars, namely global health governance and global health diplomacy.
*The Global Migration Centre focus on the transnational dimensions of migration and its interdisciplinary orientation. It combines inputs from lawyers, political scientists, economists, historians, anthropologists and sociologists.
*The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy.
*The Gender Centre produces research on the workings of gender in development and international relations and serves as a channel for the dissemination of such knowledge in both the anglophone and the francophone worlds.
*The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project that serves as the principal international source of public information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence and as a resource for governments, policy-makers, researchers, and activists.

Publications

*Refugee Survey Quarterly – Published by Oxford University Press and based at the Graduate Institute, the ''Refugee Survey Quarterly'' is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on the challenges of forced migration from multidisciplinary and policy-oriented perspectives.
* Journal of International Dispute Settlement – Established by the Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva in 2010, the ''JIDS'' is dedicated to international law with commercial, economic and financial implications. It is published by Oxford University Press.
*International Development Policy – A peer-reviewed e-journal that promotes cutting-edge research and policy debates on global development.
*European Journal of Development Research – The ''European Journal of Development Research'' is a co-publication of the Graduate Institute and the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes with a multi-disciplinary focus.
*Medicine Anthropology Theory – ''Medicine Anthropology Theory'' is an open-access journal that publishes scholarly articles, essays, reviews, and reports related to medical anthropology and science and technology studies.
*Relations Internationales – ''Relations Internationales'' publishes research on international relations history ranging from the end of the 19th century to recent history.

Organisation

Legal status

IHEID is constituted as a Swiss private law foundation, ''Fondation pour les hautes études internationales et du développement'', sharing a convention with the University of Geneva. This is a particular organisational form, because IHEID is constituted as a foundation of private law fulfilling a public purpose. In addition, the political responsibility for the Institute shared between the Swiss Confederation and the canton of Geneva. Usually in Switzerland, it is the responsibility of the cantons to run public universities, except for the Federal Institutes of Technology ( ETHZ and EPFL). IHEID is therefore something like a hybrid institution, in-between the two standard categories.

Foundation Board

The Foundation Board is the administrative body of the institute. It assembles academics, politicians, people of public life and practitioners. It includes among others: Carlos Lopes, currently UN under secretary general and executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Julia Marton-Lefèvre (former director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature), (journalist), and Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, (a former World Bank vice president).

Administration

The institute is headed by Marie-Laure Salles.

Notable alumni

The Graduate Institute has more than 18,000 alumni working around the world.
* Kofi Annan – former secretary-general of the United Nations and 2001 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
* Rafael Grossi – Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
* Mohamed ElBaradei – Egyptian jurist and diplomat, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
* Leonid Hurwicz – Polish-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2007
* Micheline Calmy-Rey – former president of the Swiss Confederation
* Kurt Furgler – former president of the Swiss Confederation
*Michel Kafando – interim president of Burkina Faso
* Alpha Oumar Konaré – ex-president of Mali
*Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
* Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete – fourth president of Tanzania
* Nazim al-Qudsi - former President of Syria (1961-1963)

Gallery

File:Kofi Annan.jpg, Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general, 1997–2006 and Nobel Peace prize recipient
File:Mohamed ElBaradei, Davos 1.jpg, Mohamed ElBaradei, IAEA director-general, 1997–2009, former vice-president of Egypt and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
File:Lyal S Sunga at ICTR Arusha Tanzania 1 Dec 2015.jpg, Lyal S. Sunga, specialist in human rights, humanitarian law and international criminal law
File:Micheline Calmy-Rey 2011.jpg, Micheline Calmy-Rey, former Swiss foreign minister and president of the Swiss Federal Council, 2007 and 2011
File:Philipp Hildebrand at St. Gallen.png, Philipp Hildebrand, head of the Swiss National Bank, 2010–2012, currently vice-chairman of BlackRock
File:Leonid Hurwicz.jpg, Leonid Hurwicz, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences co-recipient
File:Jakob Kellenberger.jpg, Jakob Kellenberger, president of the ICRC (2000–2012), and current professor at the institute
File:Microsoft President Brad Smith in Seattle, March 3, 2016.JPG, Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at Microsoft, non-executive director at Netflix
File:Embajadora Patricia Espinosa Cantellano.jpg, Patricia Espinosa, Mexican secretary of foreign affairs, 2006–2012, diplomat and executive secretary of the UNFCCC, 2016–present
File:Saul Friedlander.jpg, Saul Friedländer, Israeli historian and Pulitzer Prize winner
File:Grand Duke Luxembourg Royal Wedding 2012.jpg, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, 2000–present
File:Pöttering, Hans-Gert-9757.jpg, Hans-Gert Pöttering, president of the European Parliament, 2007–2009
File:Jakaya Kikwete 2011 (cropped).jpg, Jakaya Kikwete, the fourth president of Tanzania(2005–2015) and the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995–2005) of Tanzania
File:Konare27022007.jpg, Alpha Oumar Konaré, the president of Mali (1992 to 2002), and chairperson of the African Union Commission (2003 to 2008)

Nobel laureates

* Kofi Annan (DEA 1962), former secretary-general of the United Nations and 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner
* Mohamed ElBaradei (DEA 1964), Egyptian jurist and diplomat, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1997–2009, and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner
* Leonid Hurwicz (1940), Polish-American economist and mathematician, 2007 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Business

*Ralph D. Crosby Jr. (DEA 1976), chairman and CEO of Airbus Group, Inc. (formerly EADS North America), 2002–2009
*Jean-Marc Duvoisin (DEA 1985), CEO of Nespresso
* Nobuyuki Idei, founder and CEO of Quantum Leaps Corporation; chairman and group CEO of Sony Corporation, 1999–2005
*Daniel Jaeggi, co-founder of Mercuria Energy Group
*Rick Gilmore (PhD 1971), president and CEO of the GIC Group and Council on Foreign Relations scholar
*Philipp Hildebrand (DEA 1990), vice-president of BlackRock, former president of the Swiss National Bank
* Baron Léon Lambert (Licence 1950), Belgian banker and art collector, whose bank was merged into the powerhouse Drexel Burnham Lambert
*Lynn Forester de Rothschild (fellow 1978–1979), CEO of E.L. Rothschild
*Yan Lan (PhD 1993), managing director of Lazard China
*Jennifer Motles, chief sustainability officer of Philip Morris International
* Frank Melloul (licence 1999), CEO of i24news
*Christopher Murphy-Ives (DES 1990), vice-president and deputy general counsel for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Canada at Hewlett-Packard
*Muriel Schwab, Chief financial officer of the Gunvor (company) Group.
* Brad Smith (DEA 1984), president and chief legal officer, Microsoft
*Rafael Tiago Juk Benke, global head of corporate affairs of Brazilian multinational Vale
*G. Richard Thoman, American businessman and former president and CEO of Xerox Corporation
*Bernard Zen-Ruffinen, president of Europe, Middle East and Africa at Korn Ferry International

Diplomacy

* Márcia Donner Abreu (DEA), ambassador of Brazil, Secretary for Bilateral Negotiations in Asia, the Pacific and Russia
*Ochieng’ Adala, Ambassador of Kenya, executive director of the Africa Peace Forum
*Félix Baumann (DEA 1995), ambassador of Switzerland to the United Nations in Geneva
*William M. Bellamy (Certificate), Ret. US ambassador
*Térence Billeter (DEA), ambassador of Switzerland to China
*Jean-Marc Boulgaris (1970), former Swiss ambassador to Colombia and Denmark
*Nadia Burger (1996), ambassador of Canada to Indonesia & Timor-Leste
*Linus von Castelmur (1992), ambassador of Switzerland to India
*Arlette Conzemius (DEA), Swiss permanent representative to NATO
*Jean-Jacques de Dardel (DEA, PhD 1980), Swiss ambassador to China
* Shelby Cullom Davis (PhD 1934), US ambassador to Switzerland, 1969–1975; philanthropist
*Elyes Ghariani, Tunisian ambassador to Germany
*Rubén González Sosa (DEA), ambassador, under-secretary of foreign affairs, 1971–1976, and acting foreign minister of Mexico, 1970–1975
*Erwin Hofer (1976), Swiss ambassador to Russia
* Claude Heller (DEA), ambassador of Mexico to the United Nations
*Imran N. Hosein, Islamic scholar-specialist in Islamic Eschatology; foreign service officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago
*Tamara Kunanayakam (DEA 1982), ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office in Geneva; chairperson-rapporteur of the United Nations Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development, Human Rights Council
* Egriselda López (MA 2018), Permanent representative of El Salvador to the United Nations in New York
* A.H.M. Moniruzzaman (certificate '89), ambassador of Bangladesh to Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg
*Walid Abdel Nasser, ambassador of Egypt to the United Nations Office in Geneva
* Robert G. Neumann (1937), American ambassador and politician
*François Nordmann (DEA 1972), Swiss ambassador to France
*Assad Omer, ambassador of Afghanistan to France
*Christophe Parisot (1999), ambassador of France to Denmark
*Marcial Perez Chiriboga (PhD 1965), former ambassador of Venezuela to the US
* Michael Reiterer (1985), ambassador of the European Commission to Switzerland
* Oswaldo de Rivero, permanent representative of Peru to the United Nations in New York
*Jean-Daniel Ruch, ambassador of Switzerland to Israel
* Mohamed Shaker (PhD 1976), Egyptian ambassador
* Alvaro de Soto ( es) (DEA 1980), ambassador of Peru to France
* Zalman Shoval (DEA 1952), former Israeli ambassador to the US
*Luis Solari Tudela, ambassador of Peru to the United Kingdom
* Mohamed Ibrahim Shaker (PhD 1975), Egyptian ambassador
*Jeno Stahelin, first Swiss Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York
*Tuomas Tapio (PhD 2003), Ambassador of Finland to the OECD
*Nikolaos Vamvounakis (DEA 1975), Greek ambassador in Bangkok and non-resident ambassador to Singapore, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar
*Christian Wenaweser, ambassador of Liechtenstein to the United Nations
*Rodrigo Alberto Carazo Zeledón (PhD 1997), ambassador of Costa Rica to the United Nations

Law, politics and government

Heads of state

* Nazim al-Qudsi - former President of Syria (1961-1963)
* Micheline Calmy-Rey (Licence 1968), former president of the Swiss Confederation
* Kurt Furgler (1948), former president of the Swiss Confederation and member of the Swiss Federal Council
*Michel Kafando (1972), interim president of Burkina Faso, 2014–2015
* Alpha Oumar Konaré, former president of Mali, 1992–2002; chairperson of the African Union Commission, 2003–2008
*Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1980)

Cabinet ministers

*Delia Albert, former secretary of foreign affairs of the Philippines
*Lourdes Aranda Bezaury, ex-undersecretary of foreign affairs of Mexico, director of communications of Grupo México
* Youssouf Bakayoko (Certificate 1971), Foreign Minister of Côte d'Ivoire and ambassador
* Davit Bakradze (1998), chairman of the Georgian Parliament and former foreign affairs minister
* Sibusiso Bengu (PhD 1974), former minister of education of South Africa; first black vice-chancellor of a South African university ( Fort Hare University)
* István Bibó (PhD 1935), former minister of state of Hungary
* Tom de Bruijn (DEA, 1973), Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands
* Martin Coiteux (PhD 1991), minister responsible for Government Administration of Quebec; chair of the Treasury Board of Quebec
*Joseph Cuthbert, Minister of Education, Culture, External Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, 1971–1986
* Patricia Espinosa (DEA 1987), Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
* Abul Fateh (Fellow 1962–1963), first Foreign Minister of Bangladesh
*He Yafei (DEA 1987), vice-foreign minister of China
*Manouchehr Ganji (PhD 1960), Iranian human rights activist and former education minister
*Bonaya Godana (PhD 1982), Foreign Minister of Kenya, 1998–2001
*Baba Gana Kingibe, former minister of foreign affairs of Nigeria
*Parker T. Hart (Certificate 1936), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
*Jafar Hassan (PhD 2000), Jordanian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, 2009–2013
* Annemarie Huber-Hotz (1975), former federal chancellor of Switzerland, 2000–2007
*Samy Kabbara, Minister of Justice and Health in 1949 and Minister of Interior from 1950 to 1951 of Syria
* Sandra Kalniete (1995), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, 2002–2004, current Member of the European Parliament
*Vinay Mohan Kwatra (DEA), foreign secretary of India
*Patti Londono Jaramillo, deputy foreign minister of Colombia, vice-minister of multilateral affairs, 2010–2013
* Paul Martin Sr., former foreign minister of Canada, 1963–1968
* Yōichi Masuzoe, former governor of Tokyo, former Japanese Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, 2007–2009, former member of the Japanese House of Councillors
* Omer Tshiunza Mbiye (DEA 1967), former minister of economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Robert McFarlane (Licence), United States National Security Advisor, 1983–1985
* Teodor Meleșcanu (PhD 1973), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, former director of the Foreign Intelligence Service and former minister of defense
* Ram Niwas Mirdha, former cabinet minister in India
* Kamel Morjane (DEA 1976), minister of public service of Tunisia, former defence minister and foreign minister
*Saïd Ben Mustapha (1961), former foreign minister of Tunisia, 1997–1999
* Kristiina Ojuland (1992), former foreign minister of Estonia and current Member of the European Parliament
* Andrzej Olechowski, former minister of finance and minister of foreign affairs of Poland
*Marco Piccinini, former minister of finance and economy of Monaco
*Francisco Rivadeneira (1995), Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Integration of Ecuador
* Haroldo Rodas (DEA), former foreign minister of Guatemala
*Shri Shumsher K. Sheriff, secretary-general of the upper house of the Parliament of India
* André Simonazzi (Licence 1992), vice-chancellor of the Swiss Federal Council
*Djacoba Liva Tehindrazanarivelo (DEA 1995, PhD 2003), foreign minister of Madagascar
*Albert Tévoédjrè, former minister of information of Benin
*Tôn Thất Thiện (PhD 1963), former cabinet minister and public intellectual in Vietnam
* Omar Touray (DEA 1992, PhD 1995), former secretary of foreign affairs of the Gambia
*Joseph Tsang Mang Kin, former minister of arts and culture of Mauritius; poet
* Henry Tumukunde (MA), former minister of national security in the cabinet of Uganda.

Judges

* Ann Aldrich, United States federal judge
*Marc Bossuyt (PhD 1975), member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
*María Teresa Infante Caffi (PhD 1979), judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
*Maurice Kamga (DEA 1997, PhD 2003), judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
* Giorgio Malinverni (PhD 1974), judge at the European Court of Human Rights
* Erik Møse, former president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2003 to 2007
* Fatsah Ouguergouz (PhD 1991), judge at the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
* Christos Rozakis (visiting scholar 1985–1986), president of the Administrative Tribunal of the Council of Europe
* Max Sørensen (PhD 1946), former judge at the European Court of Justice, 1973–1979, and the European Court of Human Rights, 1980–1981
*Nina Vajić (DEA), judge at the European Court of Human Rights
* Abdulqawi Yusuf (PhD 1980), ex-president of the International Court of Justice

* Mohamed Eltawila (Masters 2018), Judge at Egyptian Court of Cassation.

Members of Parliament

*Rep. Michael D. Barnes (DEA 1966), US Congressman, 1979–1987
* Eliyahu Ben-Elissar (PhD 1969), member of the Israeli Knesset and ambassador
* Tarcísio Burity, former governor of Paraíba, Brazil
* Jacques-Simon Eggly, Swiss Member of Parliament
* Mauricio Mulder (DEA 1985), member of Peruvian Congress
* Jacques Myard (PhD), member of the National Assembly of France
* Hans-Gert Pöttering (PhD), former president of the European Parliament, 2007–2009
*Meta Ramsay, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale, former British intelligence officer and member of House of Lords
*Emrys Roberts, president of the British Liberal Party, 1963–1964
* Henri Schmitt, Swiss Member of Parliament and Member of the European Parliament
*Alexandra Thein, German politician and Member of the European Parliament

Public officials

*Marco Aguiriano (Licence), Secretary of State for the European Union
*Shara L. Aranoff (Fulbright 1984–1985), chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission
*Tennent H. Bagley (PhD 1950), Deputy Chief of the CIA's Soviet Bloc Division during the 1960s; author
*Patricia Danzi, Director General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
* Molly Gray (LLM 2016), Vermont’s 82nd lieutenant governor
*Signe Krogstrup (PhD 2003), Governor at the Central Bank of Denmark
* Carlos Lopes (DEA), High Representative of the Commission of the African Union, former UN under secretary-general and executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa
* Andréa Maechler (DEA 1994), Swiss National Bank's first female board member; Deputy Division Chief in the International Monetary Fund's Monetary and Capital Markets Department
*Jean-Pierre Roth (PhD 1975), former chairman of the Swiss National Bank
* Robert-Jan Smits, director-general for research at the European Commission
*Marcelo Zabalaga (1977), ex-president of the Central Bank of Bolivia

United Nations and international organisations

*Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for Africa
*Arnauld Antoine Akodjènou (PhD '88), head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)
* Hédi Annabi, former special representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Haiti
*Marcel André Boisard (PhD 1979), under-secretary general to the United Nations and former executive director of United Nations Institute for Training and Research
*Arthur E. Dewey, former assistant UN secretary-general
*Angèle Dikongué-Atangana, deputy director for Africa Bureau of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
*Arthur Dunkel, director-general of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1980–1993
* Rafael Grossi (MA, PhD 1997), director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency
*Kamil Idris (PhD 1964), director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 1997–2008
* C. Wilfred Jenks, director-general of the International Labour Organization, 1970–1973
* Jakob Kellenberger (1974–1975), president of the ICRC, 2000–2012
* Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
*Olivier Long (PhD 1943), director-general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1968–1980
*Jonathan Lucas (PhD 1998), head of the International Narcotics Control Board
* Jacques Moreillon (PhD 1971), former director-general of the ICRC
* Cornelio Sommaruga (PED 1961), former president of the ICRC from 1987 to 1999.
*Eric Suy, UN under secretary-general for legal affairs and director-general of the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva
* Mervat Tallawy, Egyptian politician, former UN under-secretary and executive secretary of ESCWA
*Laura Thompson Chacón (DEA), deputy director-general of the International Organization for Migration and Costa Rican Ambassador
* Sérgio Vieira de Mello, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
*Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association
*René-Jean Wilhelm (PhD 1983), co-author of the Geneva Conventions
*Ralph Zacklin (PhD 1968), UN assistant secretary-general for legal affairs

Academia

Economics

*Pontus Braunerhjelm (PhD 1994), professor of economics at the Royal Institute of Technology
*Victoria Curzon-Price (PhD 1974), economist and former director of the Mont Pelerin Society
*Paul Demeny (1957), economist who pioneered the concept of Demeny voting
*Paul Dembinski (DEA 1979), scholar specialized on finance and ethics
*Rüdiger Dornbusch (Licence 1966), international economics scholar at MIT
* Marcus Fleming, Scottish economist, former deputy director of the research department of the International Monetary Fund
* Asher Hobson (PhD 1931), leading agricultural economist
*Urban Jermann (PhD 1994), professor of international finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
* Lewis Webster Jones, president of the University of Arkansas, 1947–1951; president of Rutgers University, 1951–1958
* Karl William Kapp (PhD 1936), founding father of ecological economics and a leading institutional economist
*Gianmarco Ottaviano (DEA 1994), professor of economics at Bocconi University
*Dina Pomeranz (M.S. 2004), professor of applied economics at University of Zurich
*Hernando de Soto (Licence), Peruvian economist and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy

International History and Politics

*Ernst Engelberg, German university professor and Marxist historian.
*Cary Fraser, historian of international relations; president of the University of Guyana
* Saul Friedländer (PhD 1963), Israeli historian of Germany and Jewish history at UCLA, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
* Piero Gleijeses (PhD 1972), Italian historian of U.S. foreign relations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), best known for his scholarly studies of Cuban foreign policy under Fidel Castro
*Robert A. Graham (PhD 1952), Jesuit, church historian and authority on papal diplomacy
*Peter Hruby (PhD 1978), historian of central and eastern Europe
* William Lazonick (PhD 1975), business historian, winner of the 2010 Schumpeter Prize
* John Joseph Mathews, historian who became one of the Osage Nation's most important spokespeople and writers
* Arno J. Mayer, Luxembourg-born American Marxist historian, Dayton-Stockton Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University
*Gerhard Menk (1969), German historian and honorary professor at the University of Giessen
*Miklós Molnár (PhD 1963), Hungarian historian
* Boris Mouravieff (PhD 1951), Russian historian
*Davide Rodogno (PhD 2001), professor of international history and head of the International History Department at the Graduate Institute

International law

* Georges Abi-Saab (PhD 1967), Egyptian international law specialist
*Jean Allain (PhD 2000), professor of international law and associate dean, Monash University's faculty of law.
*Bartram S. Brown (PhD 1989), professor of international law, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and member of the board of directors of Amnesty International, USA
*Laurence Boisson de Chazournes (PhD 1991), professor of international law at the University of Geneva
*Michael Bothe (DEA 1966), professor of public law, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, and chair of the Commission for International Humanitarian Law
*Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry (PhD 1984), president of the World Maritime University
*Willem Thomas Eijsbouts (DEA 1971), professor of European law at Leiden University
*Ossip K. Flechtheim, German jurist credited with coining the term "Futurology"
*Marcelo Kohen (PhD 1995), Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Secretary-General of the Institut de Droit International
*Frédéric Mégret (PhD 2006), professor of international law at McGill University, Canada Research Chair in the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
*Steven Ratner (DEA), professor of international law at the University of Michigan's International Institute
*Cesare P.R. Romano (PhD 1999), international law professor at Loyola Law School Los Angeles
* Lyal S. Sunga (PhD 1991), ex- OHCHR official; affiliated professor, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law; special advisor on human rights and humanitarian law, International Development Law Organization; Head, Rule of Law programme, The Hague Institute for Global Justice; human rights, humanitarian law, and international criminal law expert
*Jiří Toman (PhD 1981), expert in the field of international law, professor at Santa Clara University School of Law
*Jorge E. Viñuales (Licence and DEA), Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge

International relations and political science

*Lars-Erik Cederman (MA 1990), professor of International Conflict Research at ETH Zurich
*Andrew W. Cordier (1930–1931), former president of Columbia University, 1968–1970
*Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber (PhD 1994), Austrian political scientist at Princeton University, expert on self-determination
*Marwa Daoudy (DEA, PhD 2003), assistant professor of international relations specializing in the Middle East at Georgetown University
*Osita C. Eze (PhD 1975), former director-general of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs
* Sieglinde Gstöhl (PhD 1988), director of the department of EU international relations at the College of Europe in Bruges
*Thierry Hentsch (PhD 1967), Swiss-Canadian political philosopher
*John H. Herz (DEA 1938), American scholar of international relations and law
* Shireen Hunter (PhD 1983), research professor at Georgetown University, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and scholar on Iran
*Dimitri Kitsikis (1962), Greek Turkologist
*Bahgat Korany (PhD 1974), fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and professor at the American University in Cairo; winner of the International Studies Association's 2015 Distinguished Scholar Award
*Kristen Monroe (junior year), American political scientist specializing in political psychology and ethics
*Hans Joachim Morgenthau (post-graduate work 1932), leading political scientist of international relations
* Philippe C. Schmitter (Licence 1961), emeritus professor of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute
*Pierre de Senarclens (PhD 1973), international relations theorist
*Hsueh Shou-sheng (Licence, PhD 1953), vice-chancellor of Nanyang University in Singapore, 1972–1975 and founding rector of the University of Macau
*Peter Uvin (PhD 1990), professor of government at Claremont McKenna College
*Jessica L.P. Weeks (MA 2003), professor and H. Douglas Weaver Chair in Diplomacy and International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
*Thomas G. Weiss, international relations scholar recognized as an authority on the United Nations system, professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
* Zhang Weiwei (professor) (MA, PhD 1994), Chinese professor of international relations at Fudan University
*Francis O. Wilcox (PhD 1935), former dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Linguistics

*George W. Grace (Licence 1948), linguist specializing in Oceanic languages of Melanesia

Broadcasting, journalism and literature

*Edie Austin (Diploma 1983), editorial page editor, Montreal Gazette
* Frédéric Bastien (PhD 2002), Canadian author and historian
*Robert Albert Bauer (1931), anti-Nazi radio broadcaster with Voice of America
* René Cruse, French public intellectual, writer
* Carlos Fuentes (1950), Mexican novelist, essayist and former diplomat
* Eric Hoesli, Swiss journalist
*Michel Jeanneret (Licence), editor-in-chief of ''L'Illustré''
*Elizabeth Jensen (DES '83), ombudsman and public editor of NPR
* Beat Kappeler (PhD 1970), Swiss journalist
*Helen Kirkpatrick (DEA), American war correspondent during the Second World War
* Esther Mamarbachi (DEA 1992), Swiss broadcast journalist
* Selim Matar, Iraqi novelist and sociologist
*Derek B. Miller (PhD 2004), American novelist
* Malika Nedir (DEA), Swiss news anchor
*Jean-Pierre Péroncel-Hugoz (PhD 1974), French journalist and essayist
* Nicolas Rossier (1995), American filmmaker and reporter
* Pierre Ruetschi (Licence '83), Swiss journalist
*Madeleine Zabriskie Doty (PhD 1945), American journalist and pacifist

Nobility

*Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza and pretender to the throne of Portugal
*Princess Nora of Liechtenstein
* Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg

Public policy

* Catarina de Albuquerque (MA), CEO of Sanitation and Water for All; UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation
*Allison Anderson (DEA), former director of the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies
* Svein Andresen (PhD 1988), secretary-general of the Financial Stability Board
*James Bevan (MA), founder of Conflict Armament Research
*Taina Bien-Aimé (DEA 1982), executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
*Jennifer Blanke (PhD 2005), ex-chief economist, World Economic Forum
*Anthony Banbury (DEA 1993), president and chief executive officer of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems; ex-United Nations assistant secretary-general for field support, deputy ebola coordinator and operation crisis manager
* Julius E. Coles, former president of Africare
*Laurent Goetschel (PhD 1993), director of swisspeace
*Edward Kossoy (PhD 1975), Polish lawyer and activist for victims of Nazism
*Gerhart M. Riegner, secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress, 1965–1983; in 1942, he sent the so-called Riegner Telegram
*Paul R. Samson, president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation
*Matthias Stiefel, founder of Interpeace
*Fred Tanner (Licence), ambassador and former director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy
*Scott Vaughan (IEP 2014), president and chief executive officer of the International Institute for Sustainable Development
*Willem de Vogel (Licence), chairman of The Jamestown Foundation
*Laure Waridel

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