36 Notable alumni of
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies is 1342nd in the world, 459th in Europe, and 10th in Switzerland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 36 notable alumni from Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Kofi Annan
- Enrolled in Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Studied in 1961-1962
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organisation founded by Nelson Mandela.
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Imran Nazar Hosein
- Occupations
- writer'ālimschool teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Imran Nazar Hosein is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian Islamic preacher, author and philosopher, who specializes in Islamic eschatology, world politics, economics, and modern socio-economic/political issues. He is the author of Jerusalem in the Qur'an and other books.
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Witold Waszczykowski
- Enrolled in Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Studied in 1992-1993
- Occupations
- diplomathistorianuniversity teacherpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Witold Jan Waszczykowski is a Polish politician. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2015 and 2018. Waszczykowski was a Member of the Sejm (2011–2019), and has been the Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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Philipp Hildebrand
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantuniversity teacherbanker
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Philipp Michael Hildebrand is a Swiss banker who has been serving as a vice chairman of BlackRock since 2012.
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Rafael Grossi
- Occupations
- United Nations officialdiplomat
- Biography
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Rafael Mariano Grossi is an Argentine diplomat. He is serving as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since December 3, 2019. He was formerly the Argentine Ambassador to Austria, concurrent with Slovenia, Slovakia and International Organisations based in Vienna (2013–2019).
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Abdulqawi Yusuf
- Enrolled in Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- In 1980 graduated with Doctor of Political Science
- Occupations
- juristpoliticianjudgediplomat
- Biography
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Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf is a Somali lawyer and judge serving on the International Court of Justice since 2009. He served as the court's president from 2018 to 2021.
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Alpha Oumar Konaré
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Alpha Oumar Konaré is a Malian politician, professor, historian and archaeologist, who served as President of Mali for two five-year terms from 1992 to 2002 and was Chairperson of the African Union Commission from 2003 to 2008.
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Princess Nora, Marchioness of Mariño
- Occupations
- aristocratsports executive
- Biography
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Princess Norberta of Liechtenstein, Marquesa de Mariño, popularly known as Princess Nora, is a member of Liechtenstein princely family. She is the fourth child and only daughter of Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein and his wife Georgina von Wilczek, and the younger sister of Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein.
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Teodor Meleșcanu
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Teodor Viorel Meleșcanu is a Romanian politician, diplomat, and jurist. He served as Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Romania (SIE) between 2012 and 2014. He was a three times senator on behalf of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Minister of Defense between 2007 and 2008, and Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1992 and 1996, in November 2014 and since January 2017 to July 2019. On 27 February 2012, upon his appointment as head of the SIE, he suspended himself from PNL and was later expelled from the party. On 10 September 2019, he was elected President of the Senate. He resigned from office on 3 February 2020.
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Mauricio Mulder
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Claude Maurice Mulder Bedoya, known as Mauricio Mulder, is a Peruvian politician, lawyer and former journalist. One of the most prominent and influential members of the Peruvian Aprista Party, he was Congressman from 2001 to 2019, representing Lima. From 2004 to 2010, he held the office of party Secretary General.
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Robert McFarlane
- Enrolled in Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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Robert Carl "Bud" McFarlane was an American Marine Corps officer who served as National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1983 to 1985. Within the Reagan administration, McFarlane was a leading architect of the Strategic Defense Initiative, a project intended to defend the US from Soviet ballistic missile attacks. He resigned as National Security Adviser in late 1985 because of disagreements with other administration figures but remained involved in negotiations with Iran and with Hezbollah.
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Annemarie Huber-Hotz
- Occupations
- politicianethnologistsociologist
- Biography
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Annemarie Huber-Hotz was a Swiss politician who served as the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2000 and 2007. She was nominated by the FDP for the office, and elected to it on 15 December 1999. In 2011, she became President of the Swiss Red Cross and ex officio vice-president of the IFRC.
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Vera Michalski
- Occupations
- publishertranslator
- Biography
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Vera Michalski-Hoffmann is a Swiss billionaire businesswoman, significant shareholder in Roche Holding and publisher. She is the president of several publishing houses in Switzerland, France and Poland, grouped together in a holding company, Libella SA, based in Lausanne. She founded the Jan Michalski Foundation in Montricher.
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Juan Gasparini
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Juan Gasparini is an Argentinian investigative journalist and author.
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Riadh Sidaoui
- Enrolled in Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Graduated with DES
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Riadh Sidaoui is a Swiss-Tunisian thinker, writer, journalist and political scientist.
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Marco Piccinini
- Occupations
- businesspersonmanagerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Marco Piccinini is a Monegasque sport personality, businessman, and politician.
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Antonio Hodgers
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Antonio Hodgers is a Swiss politician and member of the Green Party of Switzerland. He has been Councillor of State of Geneva since December 2013, and president of the Council of State from 13 September 2018 to 17 October 2020.
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Saadia Zahidi
- Born in
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Pakistan - Occupations
- economistinternational forum participant
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Saadia Zahidi is a managing director at the World Economic Forum.
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Arthur Dunkel
- Occupations
- economistdiplomat
- Biography
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Arthur Dunkel was a Swiss (Portuguese-born) administrator. He served as director-general of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade between 1980 and 1993. Dunkel was educated at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, in Geneva. He was Professor for international trade at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
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Pierre Krähenbühl
- Occupations
- manager
- Biography
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Pierre Krähenbühl is a Swiss national who has served as Commissioner General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from March 2014 to November 2019. Before that, he served from July 2002 as Director of Operations at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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Philippe C. Schmitter
- Occupations
- academicuniversity teachersociologistpolitical scientist
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Philippe C. Schmitter is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He is Emeritus Professor of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute.
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Frédéric Bastien
- Years
- 1969-2023 (aged 54)
- Enrolled in Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in international politics and study of history
- Occupations
- historianjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Frédéric Bastien was a Canadian author, historian, and journalist, best known for the book La Bataille de Londres. Dessous, secrets et coulisses du rapatriement constitutionnel, whose allegations surrounding the 1982 patriation of Canada's constitution caused political controversy in Quebec and led the Supreme Court of Canada to launch an internal probe.
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André Simonazzi
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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André Simonazzi is a Swiss journalist born in Monthey. He currently holds the office of Vice Chancellor and spokesman for the Swiss Federal Council, since April 2009.
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Youssouf Bakayoko
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Youssouf Bakayoko was an Ivorian politician and diplomat who served in the government as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 3 January 2006 to March 2010. From 2010, he was President of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), presiding over the 2010 presidential election.
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Omar Touray
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Omar Alieu Touray is a Gambian diplomat who has served as president of the Economic Community of West African States Commission since 2022. He was the Gambia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2007 to 2008 and was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from March 2008 to September 2009.
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Nanjala Nyabola
- Occupations
- political historianwriterwomen's rights activistpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Nanjala Nyabola is a writer, political analyst, and activist based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Ton That Thien
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tôn Thất Thiện was a South Vietnamese nationalist of the post-World War II generation who had the rare distinction of serving and watching at close quarters the two historic leaders of post-World War II Vietnam: presidents Ho Chi Minh in the Viet Minh coalition in 1945–46, and Ngô Đình Diệm 1954–55/1956–59/1963. He played a significant though understated role in the nationalist attempt to preserve a non-Communist Vietnam.
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Mahdi Ahouie
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Mahdi Ahouie is an Iranian political scientist and assistant professor of international politics and head of the Department of Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran. He has also been Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue in Geneva. Ahouie is known for his research on Israel's foreign policy, Middle Eastern politics and Iranian foreign relations.
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Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee is a Ghanaian diplomat who has been serving as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for Africa at the United Nations Secretariat since 2021. In this capacity, she is part of the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs.
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Max Sørensen
- Occupations
- diplomatuniversity teacherjudge
- Biography
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Max Sørensen was a Danish diplomat, judge, and professor of international law. He holds the distinction of being the first person to have sat as a judge on both the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.
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Marie-Ange Lukiana Mufwankolo
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marie-Ange Lukiana Mufwankolo, born Mufwankolo, is a politician from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is the Minister of Gender, Women and Children in the Government Muzito II and also in the government of Muzito III since 11 September 2011.
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Jasmin Singer
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- writeranimal rights advocate
- Biography
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Jasmin Singer is an American animal rights activist. Since 2022, she has been the host of Weekend Edition for WXXI, Rochester, NY's NPR member station. She is the co-founder of the non-profit organization and podcast Our Hen House, serves as editor-at-large of VegNews, and is the former Vice President of Editorial at Kinder Beauty. She also supports LGBTQ+ and overlapping social justice issues.
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Nicolas Rossier
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwritercinematographer
- Biography
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Nicolas Rossier is an American filmmaker and reporter best known for his biographical documentaries of the former president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide and South African Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient F.W. de Klerk.
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George W. Grace
- Occupations
- linguistuniversity teacheranthropologist
- Biography
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George William Grace was an American linguist who specialized in historical and comparative linguistics, ethnolinguistics, and Austronesian languages, especially the Oceanic languages of Melanesia. He joined the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1964, serving three years as chair (1966–1969) and three decades as editor of Oceanic Linguistics (1962–1991), a journal he founded while teaching anthropology at Southern Illinois University (1960–1964).
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Arnauld Antoine Akodjènou
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Arnauld Antoine Akodjènou, a native of Benin, is a long-life humanitarian and diplomat, currently serving as Senior Adviser for Africa at the Kofi Annan Foundation specifically working on the Democracy and Electoral Integrity Initiative. Prior to this he served as the Regional Refugee Coordinator and Special Adviser to the High Commissioner for refugees for the South Sudan Situation at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He has held numerous positions in the United Nations Department of Peace Operations, in Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI) and Mali (MINUSMA), and as a Deputy Special Representative of UN Secretary General. His career with the UNHCR spans over twenty-five years.
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Márcia Donner Abreu
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Márcia Donner Abreu is a Brazilian diplomat. She is currently ambassador of Brazil to the Republic of Korea. She was ambassador of Brazil to the Republic of Kazakhstan, and to the Republic of Turkmenistan and the Kyrgyz Republic.
