Adam Daniel Rotfeld is a Polish researcher, diplomat, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 5 January 2005 until 31 October 2005 when a change of government took place. He served earlier as the deputy foreign minister. While in that position, Rotfeld established the Warsaw Reflection Group on the UN Reform and the Transformation of the Euro-Atlantic Security Institutions, with participation from leading US and European experts and politicians.
Robert Gerhard Neumann was an American politician and diplomat who served as the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia.
The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) is a research institute of the United Nations focused on disarmament and international security. It was established in 1980 by the United Nations General Assembly with the stated purpose of informing states and the global community on questions of international security, and to assist with disarmament efforts so as to facilitate progress toward greater security and economic and social development for all.
Bertrand G. Ramcharan of Guyana, a former United Nations official who once held functional diplomatic status, was from 2011 to 2015 President of UPR Info, an NGO working to promote and strengthen the Universal Periodic Review. He is also former chancellor of the University of Guyana, Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and currently visiting professor of international law in Lund University, Sweden. Dr. Ramcharan is the first holder of the HEI Swiss Chair of Human Rights at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies. He has a doctorate from the London School of Economics and is a barrister of Lincoln's Inn.
Olavi Rudolf Holsti was a Finnish-American political scientist and academic. He held the position of George V. Allen Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Duke University. He was noted for his writings on international affairs, American foreign policy, content analysis, decision-making in politics and diplomacy, and crises.
Kevin Paul Clements is an Emeritus Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He was formerly Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS) at the University of Queensland. He has also been Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association since January 2009. Since 2016 he was appointed Director of the Toda Peace Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Michael Reiterer, member of the European External Action Service (EEAS) EU diplomatic service, serves since February 2017 as the Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of Korea.
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, also known as the Geneva Graduate Institute, is a public-private graduate-level university located in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) is an international foundation that was established in 1995 under Swiss law to "promote the building and maintenance of peace, security and stability". The GCSP was founded by the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports in cooperation with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs as a Swiss contribution to Partnership for Peace (PfP).
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou was a Mauritanian diplomat, political historian and public intellectual. A Harvard University academic, Mohamedou was Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. of which he was deputy director. His work focuses on political violence, state-building, racism, and the history of international relations.
Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and a notable constructivism scholar. He became the first Curt Gasteyger Professor of International Security at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland in 2007, where he is also a member of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding. He is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Social Science Research Council and is on the Editorial Board of Stability: International Journal of Security and Development. His more recent work included advising the United Nations’ Secretariat and the governments of Switzerland, Sweden and Germany on the design of targeted sanctions. In 2020, he was awarded the University of Chicago Professional Achievement Award.
The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights is a postgraduate joint center founded in 2006 and located in Geneva, Switzerland. The faculty includes professors from both founding institutions and guest professors from major universities.
The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies which is housed at the Maison de la paix in Geneva. The Centre is staffed by several prominent researchers such as: director Keith Krause, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Thomas J. Biersteker, Anna Leander, Jonathan Luke Austin, and Jean-Louis Arcand.
Thania Paffenholz, is an academic and policy advisor working on peace processes. She is currently Director of Inclusive Peace. Thania Paffenholz has led comparative research of peace processes has contributed to peace processes in Mozambique, Angola, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Mali, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Yemen, Egypt, El Salvador, Syria and Colombia. She received the Wihuri International Prize in 2015 for her work as a peace researcher.
Thomas Greminger is a Swiss diplomat. He served as Secretary-General for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) from July 2017 to July 2020. Since May 2021, he has been the Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). He is a general staff officer in the Swiss army.
Lars-Erik Cederman is a Swiss-Swedish political scientist and professor of International Conflict Research at ETH Zurich. His main fields of research are ethnic inequality and conflict, power-sharing, state formation and nationalism.
Jean-Jacques de Dardel, born in 1954, is a senior Swiss civil servant with a rich background in International Diplomatic Affairs, Academia and Statesmanship.
Jiří Toman was a Czech-born Swiss jurist and professor. He was an expert in the field of international law. From 1992 to 1998, he directed the Henry-Dunant Institute in Geneva, which he had joined in 1969. From 1998 to 2018, Toman was a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law.
Marwa Daoudy is a Swiss associate professor of international relations at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University where she holds the Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies. She was previously a lecturer at Oxford University and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. She has been a researcher at the Center for International Studies and Research and has written various articles on water sharing, conflict and negotiations in the Middle East.
Robin Geiss is a German academic specializing in public international law. In 2021, he was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Prior to this, Geiss held various academic appointments including as Swiss Chair of International Humanitarian Law at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and Director of the Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security at the University of Glasgow.
