Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

The Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies ( HEI IUHEI or simply ) is an institute for the study of international relations in Geneva. The French name of the Institute is the Graduate Institute of International Studies. The HEI is an autonomous institute of the University of Geneva and is located in the Villa Barton on Lake Geneva. It was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation as a center of the neoliberals later so designated in the 1930s. Founder and first director of the Institute was William Rappard.

As of 2008, the HEI will be replaced along with the Graduate Institute of Development ( GIDS ) by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ( Graduate Institute ).

Famous people

Current and former faculty

  • Saul Friedlander, historian
  • Georges Kaeckenbeeck, lawyer, 1937-1939
  • Hans Kelsen, taught international law 1934-1940
  • Theodor Meron, taught international law 1991-1995
  • Ludwig von Mises, a professor of international economic relations from 1934 to 1940
  • Wilhelm Röpke, professor of international economics 1937-1966

Graduates

  • Kofi Annan, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006
  • Micheline Calmy -Rey, Federal Councillor 2002-2011
  • Andrew Cordier, UN official
  • Rudiger Dornbusch, German - American economist and long-time professor at MIT
  • Arthur Dunkel, Swiss economist and Director General of the GATT 1980 to 1993
  • Philipp Hildebrand, president of the Swiss National Bank from 2010 to 2012
  • Beat Kappeler, a Swiss social scientist and journalist
  • Jakob Kellenberger, Swiss diplomat and since 2000 President of the ICRC
  • Michael Reiterer, Ambassador of the European Commission in Berne from 2007 to 2011
  • Jean -Pierre Roth, President of the Swiss National Bank from 2001 to 2009
  • Hernando de Soto, a Peruvian economist and President of the Instituto Libertad y Democracia de ( ILD)
  • Emanuel Treu, Austrian diplomat, Permanent Representative of Austria to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva ( 1960-1966 ), Director of the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna
Federal Council (Switzerland) Andrew W. Cordier Rudi Dornbusch Director-general Jean-Pierre Roth
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