List of alumni of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Maison de la Paix, home of the Graduate Institute since 2013
This is a list of notable alumni of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (French: Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, abbreviated IHEID or the Graduate Institute Geneva), a bilingual postgraduate university located in Geneva, Switzerland. Prominent alumni include three Nobel laureates, five heads of state, a Pulitzer Prize winner, one Secretary-General of the United Nations, and various senior figures at the UN and other international organisations, as well as many academics specialising in international economics, international history, international law, international relations, development studies, political science and anthropology.
Gallery[]
Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, 1997–2006 and Nobel Peace prize recipient
Mohamed ElBaradei, IAEA Director-General, 1997–2009, former Vice President of Egypt and Nobel Peace prize recipient
Micheline Calmy-Rey, former Swiss foreign minister and president of the Swiss Federal Council, 2007 and 2011
Philipp Hildebrand, head of the Swiss National Bank, 2010–2012, currently vice-chairman of BlackRock
Leonid Hurwicz, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences co-recipient
Jakob Kellenberger, president of the ICRC, 2000–2012
Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at Microsoft, Non-Executive Director at Netflix
Patricia Espinosa, Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 2006–2012, diplomat and executive secretary of the UNFCCC, 2016–present
Saul Friedländer, Israeli historian and Pulitzer Prize winner
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, 2000–present
Hans-Gert Pöttering, president of the European Parliament, 2007–2009
Jakaya Kikwete, the fourth President of Tanzania(2005-2015) and the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995-2005) of Tanzania
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[1]
- 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[2]
Academia[]
Economics[]
- Brian Bethune, professor of economics at Boston College
- Pavel Chakraborty, assistant professor of economics at Lancaster University
- Victoria Curzon-Price (PhD), economist and former director of the Mont Pelerin Society
- Paul Demeny (1957), economist who pioneered the concept of Demeny voting
- Paul Dembinski, scholar specialized on finance and ethics
- Rüdiger Dornbusch (Licence 1966), international economics scholar at MIT[3]
- Marcus Fleming, Scottish economist, former deputy director of the research department of the International Monetary Fund
- Rikard Forslid (PhD 1994), professor of economics at Stockholm University[4]
- Andrea Fracasso, professor of economics at the University of Trento
- Asher Hobson (PhD 1931), agricultural economist
- Urban Jermann (PhD 1994), professor of international finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Kent Jones (PhD), professor of international economics at Babson College
- 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 (Diploma 1994), professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Smita Srinivas, head of the School of Economic Development at the Indian Institute for Human Resettlement
- Pierre-Louis Vezina, assistant professor of East and South East Asia microeconomics (PhD), King's College London
History[]
- Norma Breda Dos Santos, professor of history at the Institute of International Relations at the University of Brasilia
- Jasna Dragovic-Soso, professor of international politics and history at Goldsmiths, University of London
- 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[2]
- 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[5]
- Robert A. Graham (PhD 1952), Jesuit, church historian and authority on papal diplomacy[6]
- 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
- (PhD 1951), Russian historian
- (Licence 1958, PhD 1966), scholar of the history of ideas
- Davide Rodogno (PhD 2001), professor of international history and head of the International History Department at the Graduate Institute[7]
- Marzia Varutti (PhD 2008), professor of cultural history and museology, University of Oslo
- Marco Wyss (MA), professor of international history of the Cold War at Lancaster University
International law[]
- Georges Abi-Saab (PhD), Egyptian international law specialist[8]
- Bartram S. Brown (PhD), 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 (diploma 1966), professor of public law, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, and chair of the Commission for International Humanitarian Law
- Ion Diaconu, professor of international law at the University of Bucharest
- Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, president of the World Maritime University
- Patrick Dumberry, professor of international law, University of Ottawa
- Willem Thomas Eijsbouts (DEA 1971), professor of European law at Leiden University
- James Fry (PhD), associate professor of law, University of Hong Kong
- Kalliopi Koufa, Emeritus Professor of Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, former UN Special Rapporteur on Terrorism and Human Rights
- Robert Kolb (PhD 1998), professor of international law at the University of Geneva
- Virginia Leary (PhD 1982), one of first women to attend the University of Chicago Law School, professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo
- Andrei Mamolea (PhD), historian of international law at the University of Boston
- Frédéric Mégret, 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
- Rajesh Babu Ravindran, professor of law and policy at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
- Juan Vicente Sola (Diploma, 1985), professor of constitutional law at the University of Buenos Aires.
- Lyal S. Sunga (PhD 1991), ex-OHCHR official; Visiting 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 program, The Hague Institute for Global Justice; human rights, humanitarian law, and international criminal law expert
- Jiří Toman, 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[9]
- Patricia K. Wouters, Founding Director of the Dundee UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science and professor of international law at the University of Dundee
- Yoshifumi Tanaka (DES 1996, PhD 2002), professor of international law at the University of Copenhagen
International relations and political science[]
- Jonathan Luke Austin (PhD 2017), British political sociologist, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Vicki Birchfield (DES 1993), professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Bernhard Blumenau (PhD 2013), assistant professor of international relations, University of St Andrews
- Jessica Byron (diploma), director, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indie
- Pontus Braunerhjelm (PhD 1994), professor of economics at the Royal Institute of Technology
- Miguel Carreras (MA), associate professor of political science, University of California, Riverside
- Lars-Erik Cederman (MA 90), Swiss-Swedish political scientist and professor of International Conflict Research at ETH Zurich
- Andrew W. Cordier (1930–1931), former president of Columbia University, 1968–1970[10]
- Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber (PhD 1994), Austrian political scientist at Princeton University, expert on self-determination
- Marwa Daoudy (PhD), associate professor of international relations specializing in the Middle East at Georgetown University
- André Donneur (PhD 1967), Canadian political scientist
- Jasna Dragovic-Soso (PhD 1999), professor of politics and international relations at Goldsmiths, University of London
- Paula Drumond (PhD), professor of international relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
- Manfred Elsig, professor of International Relations at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern.
- Osita C. Eze (PhD 1975), former director-general of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs[2]
- Pamina Firchow (PhD 2009), associate professor of coexistence and Conflict, Brandeis University
- Elena Gadjanova (PhD), professor of politics, University of Exeter
- Denise Garcia (PhD 2006), associate professor of political science and international affairs at Northeastern University
- Maira Siman Gomes (MA), professor of international relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
- A.J.R. Groom (PhD), professor emeritus of international relations, University of Kent at Canterbury
- Sieglinde Gstöhl (PhD 1988), director of studies at the College of Europe in Bruges
- Marcelo Gullo () (MA), Argentinian international relations professor
- Heidi Hardt (Phd 2011), associate professor of political science, tenured, University of California, Irvine
- Kaveri Ishwar Haritas (MA), O. P. Jindal Global University
- Thierry Hentsch (PhD 1967), Swiss-Canadian political philosopher
- John H. Herz (Diploma 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
- Kai Michael Kenkel (PhD), professor of international relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
- 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
- Jana Krause (PhD 2013), assistant professor, tenured, of security and conflict, University of Amsterdam
- Urs Luterbacher (PhD 1974), political scientist specializing in game theory
- Andrei Mamolea (PhD 2018), assistant professor of international relations, Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University
- Zidane Meriboute (PhD 1983), SOAS scholar specializing in Islam
- 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[11]
- Gordon Mace, professor of political science at Université Laval
- Philippe Regnier (PhD 1986), professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa
- D.W. (Dennis) Rodgers (diploma), professor of international development studies, University of Amsterdam
- Jayita Sarkar (PhD 2014), assistant professor of international relations, Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University
- 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[2]
- Peter Uvin, provost of Amherst College and former Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
- Edmundo Hernández-Vela (es) (PhD), emeritus professor of international relations, National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Jessica L. Weeks (MA 2003), professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Thomas G. Weiss, presidential professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, international relations scholar recognized as an authority on the United Nations system
- Francis O. Wilcox, former dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies[10]
- Andrew Williams, British professor of international relations, University of St Andrews
Linguistics[]
- George W. Grace (Licence 1948), linguist specializing in Oceanic languages of Melanesia
Public health[]
- Maria Carolina Loureiro, professor of global health at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
- Heather Lynn Wipfli, associate professor of clinical preventive medicine and international relations at the University of Southern California
Broadcasting, journalism and literature[]
- Frédéric Bastien (PhD), 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[2]
- 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 (Diploma), 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
- Arnold Sagalyn, American journalist
- Jon Woronoff (Licence 1965), American writer and East Asian specialist
Business[]
- Paul Appermont, Belgian businessman.
- Larry Carp, attorney-at-law.
- Ralph D. Crosby Jr. (DEA 1976), chairman and CEO of Airbus Group Inc. (formerly EADS North America), 2002–2009[12]
- Vitalii Demianiuk, Ukrainian engineer, entrepreneur, public figure, philanthropist.
- Jean-Marc Duvoisin (DEA 1985), CEO of Nespresso[13]
- Nobuyuki Idei, founder and CEO of Quantum Leaps Corporation; chairman and Group CEO of Sony Corporation, 1999–2005[2]
- Daniel Jaeggi, co-founder of Mercuria Energy Group[10]
- Martin Kupka, chief economist of Československá obchodní banka.
- 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[10]
- Léon Lambert, Belgian banker and art collector[10]
- Lynn Forester de Rothschild (Fellow 1978–1979), CEO of E.L. Rothschild
- Yan Lan (PhD 1993), managing director of Lazard China[10]
- Vera Michalski, Swiss publisher.
- 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[10]
- Jean-François de Saussure, CEO of Caran d'Ache
- Tadzio Schilling (MA), chief executive officer of the Association of European Businesses
- Brad Smith (DEA 1984), president and chief legal officer, Microsoft[14]
- 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[15]
- Bernard Zen-Ruffinen, president of Europe, Middle East and Africa at Korn Ferry International[10]
- Carl Zimmerer, founder and CEO of InterFinanz[10]
Diplomacy[]
- Rubén González Sosa (DEA), ambassador, under-secretary of foreign affairs, 1971–1976, and acting foreign minister of Mexico, 1970–1975[16]
- Walid Abdel Nasser, Ambassador of Egypt to the United Nations Office in Geneva
- 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
- Ochieng’ Adala, Ambassador of Kenya, executive director of the Africa Peace Forum
- 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
- Linus von Castelmur (1992), Ambassador of Switzerland to India
- Shelby Cullom Davis (PhD 1934), US Ambassador to Switzerland, 1969–1975; philanthropist[17]
- Elyes Ghariani, Tunisian Ambassador to Germany
- Erwin Hofer (1976), Swiss Ambassador to Russia
- María Teresa Infante (PhD 1980), Chilean Ambassador to the Netherlands
- Claude Heller (DEA), Ambassador of Mexico to the United Nations
- 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
- A.H.M. Moniruzzaman (Certificate '89), Ambassador of Bangladesh to Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg
- Robert G. Neumann (1937), American ambassador and politician
- François Nordmann (DEA 1972), Swiss Ambassador to France
- Assad Omer, Ambassador of Afghanistan to France
- 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
- Andrea Rauber Saxer, ambassador of Switzerland to Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Stefan Scholz (Diplomat), Austrian ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Zalman Shoval (DEA), former Israeli Ambassador to the US
- Luis Solari Tudela, Ambassador of Peru to the United Kingdom
- Mohamed Ibrahim Shaker (PhD 1975), Egyptian ambassador
- Nikolaos Vamvounakis (Diploma 1975), Greek ambassador in Bangkok and non-resident ambassador to Singapore, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar
- Gheorghe Vlădescu-Răcoasa, Romanian sociologist, journalist, left-wing politician and diplomat
- Christian Wenaweser, Ambassador of Liechtenstein to the United Nations
Law, politics and government[]
Heads of state[]
- Micheline Calmy-Rey (Licence 1968), former president of Switzerland[2]
- Kurt Furgler (1948), former president of Switzerland and member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Michel Kafando (1972), interim president of Burkina Faso, 2014–2015
- Alpha Oumar Konaré, president of Mali, 1992–2002; Chairperson of the African Union Commission, 2003–2008
- Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1980)[18]
Cabinet ministers[]
- Delia Albert, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines
- Lourdes Aranda Bezaury, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
- Youssouf Bakayoko (Certificate 1971), Foreign Minister of Côte d'Ivoire and ambassador[10]
- 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)[2]
- István Bibó (PhD 1935), former Minister of State of Hungary
- Martin Coiteux (PhD), 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[2]
- Abul Fateh (Fellow 1962–1963), first Foreign Minister of Bangladesh
- Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Baba Gana Kingibe, former Nigerien minister
- He Yafei (DEA 1987), Assistant 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
- 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), Federal Chancellor of Switzerland, 2000–2007
- Sandra Kalniete (1995), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, 2002–2004, current Member of the European Parliament
- Patti Londono Jaramillo, Deputy Foreign Minister of Colombia, Vice-Minister of Multilateral Affairs, 2010–2013[10]
- Marie-Ange Lukiana Mufwankolo, Minister of Gender, Women and Children for the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Paul Martin Sr., Foreign Minister of Canada, 1963–1968
- Yōichi Masuzoe, Governor of Tokyo, former Japanese Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, 2007–2009, former member of the Japanese House of Councillors[10]
- 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), former Defence Minister and Foreign Minister of Tunisia, 2005–2011
- Saïd Ben Mustapha, 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, Minister of Finance and Economy of Monaco
- Francisco Rivadeneira (1995), Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Integration of Ecuador
- Haroldo Rodas (DEA), Foreign Minister of Guatemala[10]
- 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
- 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[10]
- Joseph Tsang Mang Kin, former Minister of Arts and Culture of Mauritius; poet
- James M. Wilson Jr., U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs from 1975 to 1977
- Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Henry Tumukunde, former Minister of Security of Uganda
Judges[]
- Ann Aldrich, United States federal judge
- Julio A. Barberis (es), judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Marc Bossuyt (PhD 1975), member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
- Giorgio Malinverni (PhD 1974), judge at the European Court of Human Rights
- Fatsah Ouguergouz (PhD 1991), judge at the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Christos Rozakis (visiting scholar 1985–1986), first vice-president of the European Court of Human Rights
- 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), judge at the International Court of Justice[10]
Members of Parliament[]
- Rep. Michael D. Barnes (DEA 1966), US Congressman, 1979–1987
- 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[19]
- Meta Ramsay, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale, former British intelligence officer and member of House of Lords[20]
- Emrys Roberts, president of the British Liberal Party, 1963–1964[21]
- Alexandra Thein, German politician and member of the European Parliament
Public officials[]
- Shara L. Aranoff (Fulbright 1984–1985), chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission[2]
- John A. Baker Jr., United States diplomat, most notable for serving as Director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs.
- Tennent H. Bagley (PhD 1950), Deputy Chief of the CIA's Soviet Bloc Division during the 1960s; author
- Molly Gray (LL.M., 2016), Lieutenant governor of Vermont[22]
- 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[10]
- Robert-Jan Smits, director-general for research at the European Commission[2]
- Marcelo Zabalaga (1977), president of the Central Bank of Bolivia
United Nations and international organisations[]
- Arnauld Antoine Akodjènou (PhD '88), head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)
- Catarina de Albuquerque, UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Hédi Annabi, former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Haiti
- Anthony Banbury (DEA 1993), United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support, Deputy Ebola Coordinator and Operation Crisis Manager[10]
- Marcel André Boisard (PhD), 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[10]
- Arthur Dunkel, director-general of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1980–1993[10]
- Associate Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1971-2002. Founding Member, former President, and former Treasurer of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE)
- Kamil Idris (PhD 1964), director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 1997–2008[10]
- C. Wilfred Jenks, director-general of the International Labour Organization, 1970–1973
- Jakob Kellenberger (1974–1975), president of the ICRC, 2000–2012[2]
- Pierre Krähenbühl, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
- Bengt Liljestrand, commander of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) and the Second United Nations Emergency Force.
- Olivier Long (PhD 1943), director-general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1968–1980[10]
- Carlos Lopes (DEA), UN under secretary-general and executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa[2]
- Jonathan Lucas (PhD 1998), head of the International Narcotics Control Board
- Jacques Moreillon (PhD 1971), former director-general of the ICRC
- Arnold Rørholt (jurist), Norwegian jurist and refugee worker.
- Eric Suy, UN under secretary-general for legal affairs and director-general of the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva[10]
- 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
- René-Jean Wilhelm (PhD 1983), co-author of the Geneva Conventions
- Ralph Zacklin, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs
Nobility[]
- Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza and pretender to the throne of Portugal
- Princess Nora of Liechtenstein[23]
- Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg[24]
Public policy[]
- Allison Anderson (DEA), former director of the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies
- Antony Alcock (PhD 1968), Ulster Unionist politician
- Svein Andresen (PhD), secretary-general of the Financial Stability Board
- Jennifer Blanke (PhD 2005), chief economist, World Economic Forum
- Pontus Braunerhjelm (PhD 1994), secretary-general of the Swedish government's Globalization Council
- Puruesh Chaudhary (MA), futures researcher
- Julius E. Coles, former president of Africare
- Robert M. Cutler (Gallatin Fellow 1979-1980), senior research fellow and director of the NATO Association of Canada's Energy Security Program
- Laurent Goetschel, director of swisspeace
- Stephanie T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt (DEA), Asia-Pacific director at United States Institute of Peace and Council on Foreign Relations scholar
- 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
- Riadh Sidaoui, Tunisian political scientist and director of Geneva's Centre Arabe de Recherches et d'Analyses Politiques et Sociales
- Hernando de Soto, Peruvian economist and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy[2]
- Matthias Stiefel, founder of Interpeace
- Fred Tanner (Licence), ambassador and former director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy
- John Ulanga (DPP 2013), executive director of the Foundation for Civil Society, Tanzania
- Tek Vannara (DPP 2007), executive director of the NGO Forum on Cambodia
- 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
- René Wadlow, president and representative to the UN of the Association of World Citizens
- Laure Waridel CM, Canadian social activist, writer and executive director of the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en opérationnalisation du développement durable (CIRODD)
- Leicester Chisholm Webb, Australian political scientist, public servant and journalist
- Béatrice Wertli (Licence), secretary-general of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
- Theodor H. Winkler (Licence 1977, PhD 1981), director of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces[25]
- Samuel A. Worthington (Fulbright 1985), CEO of InterAction[26]
Other[]
- Sasha Bezuhanova, activist and philanthropist who contributes to Bulgaria's IT industry.
- Jack Fahy, US government official and suspected spy during World War II
- Jacques Piccard, deep-sea explorer and inventor
- Kathryn Wasserman Davis, American philanthropist
- Saadia Zahidi, head of Gender Parity and Human Capital of the World Economic Forum
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