The Executive Committee of the programme selects a variety of distinguished academics, professors, experts and practitioners as guest speakers for the different thematic modules in order to assure the high-quality teachings and to respect the principle of diversity that characterises the MEIG Programme. The professors and experts, coming from different institutions and universities in Europe, are selected depending on their field of competences and the core subject of each module.
The following list is designed for the MEIG Programme; it is indicative and subject to changes.
- Professors
- Practitioners
Professors
Gian Luca Burci was named Adjunct Professor at the Institute in 2012. He has served in the Legal Office of the World Health Organization since 1998 and has been appointed Legal Counsel in 2005. Professor Burci previously served as Legal Officer at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and in the United Nations Secretariat in New York for nearly a decade. At the Institute he has taught in the joint LLM in Global Health Law and International Institutions programme in partnership with Georgetown University. He holds a post graduate degree in law from the Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy. His areas of expertise are in international law and international organisations as well as governance and law related to international health.
Professor Chetail is Editor-in-Chief of the Refugee Survey Quarterly, member of the founding editorial board of Oxford Bibliographies in International Law and General Editor of the series Organisation internationale et relations internationales (Bruylant, Brussels). He is also Senior Research Associate at the Refugee Law Initiative (University of London), as well as member of the Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe, the Advisory Council of the Global Migration Policy Associates and the General Assembly of the International Institute of Human Rights – Strasbourg.
Vincent Chetail has been Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (Human Rights Programme, 2013) and Visiting Professor at several universities, such as the European University Institute – Florence (2010), the University of Paris XI (2006-2012) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (2008-2012). He regularly serves as a consultant to governments, NGOs and international organizations (including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration).
Stéphanie Dagron is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, Switzerland. She and her team of three doctoral students mainly work on a large-scale project in the field of global health law entitled “juridification of global health concerns: implications for health prevention, treatment and health systems”. The project analyses two developments: the proliferation of international legal instruments concerned with public health and the increasing role of the judiciary in health-sector issues.
Between 2009 and 2013, Stéphanie Dagron worked as a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research project on the regulation of medicines was funded through a scholarship by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Originally from France, she holds doctoral degrees in law from the Universities of Poitiers (France) and Saarbrücken (Germany), in topics related to international public law and European law. She studied law in France (Poitiers), Germany (Marburg and Saarbrücken) and the United Kingdom (Cambridge). While working on her dissertation she was a Max-Planck-Society fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for International Law and Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg (1999-2003) and a lecturer at the Universities of Saarbrücken (1997-2000), Strasbourg in France (2001-2003) and Heidelberg (2003-2009). She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for administrative law at the University of Heidelberg (2003-2006), the Max-Planck Institute Heidelberg (2006-2007) and the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer (2008-2009). She has been teaching French and German public law as well as International and European Law.
Lately, she has focused on teaching in the areas of public health law, pharmaceutical regulation, international health law and human rights. Her main research interests include human rights issues and global health, pharmaceutical laws, global bioethics, international (health) law, comparative administrative law and global administrative law.
Most recently, Stéphanie Dagron was the co-facilitator of a regional WHO workshop on ethics and human rights of MDR-TB in Copenhagen, Denmark (November 2013). She has been recently awarded a grant from the Brocher Foundation to conduct a symposium on the same subject, which took place in December 2015 in Geneva.
Professor of International Relations/Political Science and Director of Executive Education at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Cédric Dupont is a Senior Research Fellow of the Berkeley Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a consultant to various international organisations, multinational companies as well as a range of governments. In addition to courses and seminars for graduate students, he has taught a wide array of programmes to government officials and private sector employees.
He is a former Editor of the Swiss Political Science Review and former Associate Editor for Europe of the journal Business and Politics. He has been a visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Seoul National University and the University of Melbourne.
His recently published works include: Political Risk and Investment Arbitration: An Empirical Study, Toward a New Heuristic Model: Investment Arbitration as Political System, and European Union Meets South Korea: Bureaucratic Interests, Exporter Discrimination and the Negotiations of Trade Agreements.
His research focuses on international political economic issues, both at the global and regional levels, on international cooperation, and international negotiation processes. His current work concentrates on the political economy of international investment arbitration (forthcoming book with Oxford University Press on Arbitration as a Political System), comparative regionalism, the management of jurisdictional boundaries between international organisations and the factors that influence trade negotiations in the European Union.
Elspeth Guild is Jean Monnet Professor ad personam at Queen Mary, University of London as well as at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. She is also a partner at the London law firm, Kingsley Napley and an associate senior research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels. She is also a visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. She was special advisor to the House of Lords European Union Committee’s Inquiry into Economic Migration in 2005.
Her interests and expertise lies primarily in the area of EU law, in particular EU Justice and Home Affairs (including immigration, asylum, border controls, criminal law and police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters). She also researches EU privacy and data protection law and the nexus with human rights. She co-ordinates the European Commission’s Network of Experts on Free Movement of Workers which the Radboud University manages, bringing together academic experts from the 27 Member States providing national reports annually on the implementation of EU law in the Member States, thematic reports, regional conferences and a national conference each year. She is also co-editor of the European Journal of Migration and Law and Free Movement of Workers (the European Commission’s on-line journal) and on the editorial board of the journal International Political Sociology. She is co-editor of the book series Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe published by Martinus Nijhoff.
Professor Guild provides regular advice to the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of Europe and other European and international organizations (such as the UNHCR) on free movement of persons, migration and asylum. She has researched the legal and social content of European citizenship and has been invited to submit the chapter on EU citizenship for Blackwells Companion for European Union Law and International Law in 2012.
Professor Guild is co-chair of the European Sub Committee, Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA), a post which she has held since the sub-committee was established in 1990. ILPA is the UK legal profession’s voice on immigration and asylum matters with just under a thousand members. In this role she has been instrumental in ensuring that the reflections of UK legal practitioners on EU immigration and asylum matters are taken into account by policy makers both in the UK and the EU. She teaches regularly in ILPA’s continuing education programme. She also teaches regularly for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles in their educational programme for legal practitioners across the Europe.
Christine Kaddous pursued her legal studies in Switzerland (BA and PhD at the University of Neuchâtel), the United Kingdom (MA in Law, LL.M. (Cantab) at the University of Cambridge) and Belgium (MA in European Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles). She was admitted to the Bar and was a practicing lawyer for a number of years in the field of Commercial Law, first in Neuchâtel, then in Geneva.
She pursues her teaching and research activities in EU Law and International Law, Dispute Settlement, External Relations of the EU with an emphasis on the EU-WTO relations, and on the EU-Switzerland Bilateral Agreements.
Christine Kaddous is President of the Swiss Society of International Law (Société Suisse de droit international, SSDI-SVIR) since 2008, Vice-President of the Association suisse pour le droit européen (ASDE), a member of the Executive Committee of the Association suisse d’étude de l’intégration européenne (ECSA-Suisse) and a member of the Steering Committee of the Centre européen de la culture. She is also member of many national and international associations or societies related to her areas of expertise such as the Société française de droit international (SFDI), the International Law Association (ILA), the European Society of International Law (ESIL), the Commission pour l’Etude des Communautés européennes (CEDECE) and the Swiss Association Arbitration (ASA).
Since 2001, she is editor of the Collection ‘Dossiers de droit européen’ (DDE), published today by Schulthess/LGDJ (Zürich/Paris) and member of a number of scientific review committees, namely of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (SRIEL, Revue suisse de droit international et européen - RSDIE), the Journal du droit européen (JDE) and the Austrian Journal of Public and International Law (Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht).
She is currently taking part in research projects in the fields of EU-Switzerland Bilateral Relations, the free movement of persons and services, as well as in the field of consumer protection and multilingualism.
Areas of expertise
EU Law, International Law, European and International Dispute Settlement, International Economic Law (including Investment Law), International Agreements concluded by the EU, EU-WTO Relations, EU-Switzerland Relations, Law and Politics in the areas of Free Movement of Goods, Persons, Services and Capital, Air and Land Transport, Public Procurement, Technical Obstacles to trade, Environment and Health Protection.
Jaya Krishnakumar, Ph.D. in Econometrics and Statistics, from the University of Geneva, is Professor of Econometrics at the Department of Economics, University of Geneva. Her research interests include panel data econometrics, time series econometrics, simultaneous equations models, structural models for human development and well-being, and statistical analysis of multidimensional indicators of well-being and poverty. She has various publications in the form of articles in international econometrics/economics journals such as Econometric Theory, Journal of Econometrics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of Public Economics, Health Economics, World Development, European Economic Review, Journal of Human Development, Social Indicators Research, books (both as author and editor) in collections such as Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (Springer), Contributions to Economic Analysis (Elsevier) and chapters in textbooks/handbooks published in the series Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics (Kluwer Academic, Springer). She is a referee for several top journals, has led various research projects with external funding in particular grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, regularly serves as an external expert for evaluating research proposals and projects, and advises researchers at international organizations such as WTO, ILO, WHO, UNRISD.
Sandra Lavenex is Professor of European and International Politics at the University of Geneva and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. Her research focuses on European and international migration policy, EU external relations, and international institutions more broadly. She obtained her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 2009 and has since held positions at the Universities of Zurich, Bern, Lucerne and now Geneva. She joined the College of Europe in 2007 and has acted as external advisor for the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Swiss Government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Sandra Lavenex has published widely on EU asylum/immigration policies and justice and home affairs more generally; on the projection of EU rules and norms to third countries and international institutions; and on democratic governance in the international realm. Her more recent research projects have focused on comparative regional migration governance (worldwide), the nexus of trade and migration policy, international cooperation on migration, as well as the question how far and under which conditions emerging countries evolve from rule-takers to rule-makers, sharing the EU’s and US status as global regulators in different policy fields.
Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva since 2001.
Director of the Institut européen (IEUG, 2007-2013)
Director of the Global Studies Institute (GSI, since 2013)
Teaching and research activities:
Teaching activities: European law, local and regional authorities and European integration, federalism and democracy in Europe, law of international organisations.
Research activities: European institutions, judicial remedies in the European Union, the status of public authorities in Europe, law of minority groups, cross-border cooperation, the governance of complex institutional systems, Swiss- Europe relations.
Member of the Centre de droit international and the Centre de droit public at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, co-founder of the Réseau d’études des normes transfrontalières et inter-territoriales (RENTI), member of the academic council of the doctoral school “Globalisation Europe and Multilateralism” (GEM), co-director of the Ecole doctorale Suisse sur les fondements du droit européen et international, member of the editorial board of the Revue belge de droit international, member of the steering committee of the journal EU-Topias, member of the steering committee of the Centre européen de la culture and Vice-president of the Rencontres internationals de Genève.
Charles Wyplosz is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva where he is Director of the International Centre of Money and Banking Studies (ICMB).
Previously, he has served as Associate Dean for Reserach and Development at INSEAD and Director of the PhD program in Economics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris. He has also been Director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of CEPR, the leading European network of economists.
His main research areas include European monetary integration, monetary policy, fiscal policy discipline and regional integration in various parts of the world. He is the co-author, jointly with Michael Burda, of a popular textbook on Macroeconomics and, jointly with Richard Baldwin, of the leading textbook on European economic integration. He was a founding Managing Editor of the review Economic Policy. He serves on several boards of professional reviews and European research centres. He is a regular columnist in such newspapers as the Financial Times, Le Monde, Libération, Le Temps, Finanz und Wirtschaft, and Handelsblatt.
Currently a member of the Panel of Experts of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and of the "Bellagio Group", Charles Wyplosz is an occasional consultant to the European Commission, the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. He has been a member of the "Conseil d'Analyse Economique" which reports to the Prime Minister of France, of the French Finance Minister's "Commission des Comptes de la Nation" and of the Group of Independent Economic Advisors to the President of the European Commission. He has also advised the President of France and the governments of Cyprus and of the Russian Federation. He also consults with private financial institutions and is regularly invited to give lectures to public and private conferences.
Charles Wyplosz holds degrees in Engineering and Statistics from Paris and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. He has been awarded the Legion d’Honneur by the President of France.
Experts
After a successful career as a BBC correspondent (London, Brussels and Geneva) and spokeswoman for the UN and WWF International, Claire has worked for the past 7 years as a trainer, coach and video producer. Founder of ClearViewMedia, she is passionate about helping individuals, organizations and companies better communicate what they do.
A communications expert, Claire delivers courses and provides coaching on how to handle the media and generate positive coverage, deliver an effective media interview and present with impact.
Her experience as a top class journalist and spokeswoman puts her in a unique position as a trainer as she understands the realities of public relations and the media. Claire has trained public relations experts as well as at CEO and senior management level all over the world.
Working with some of Switzerland’s best cameramen and video-editors, Claire produces videos for websites, conferences and broadcast for the UN, ICRC, EC and a number of multinational companies. She also moderates debates and conferences and does video voice-overs.
English mother-tongue, Claire speaks fluent French and German, and conversational Spanish.
Marco Fugazza is an Economist at the United Nation Conference for Trade and Development. Before his current position, he was an Economist at the French Ministry of Labour. He also worked as a Consultant for the World Bank and the ILO. His research focuses on issues related to international trade and development.
His work has dealt with the determinants of export performance, south-south trade, non-tariff barriers, the political economy of trade agreements and the informal sector in labour markets. He has authored several publications in the field of international trade and economic development. He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute and a Master in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
Walter B. Gyger has graduated in Public Management at the University of St. Gallen, where he has also written his doctor thesis on European Integration. He is Honorary Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Russia’s Academy of Education.
In 1974 he joined the Diplomatic Service of Switzerland. 1991 the Swiss Government appointed him Ambassador to Senegal, Mali, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau and the Gambia.
