Lecturers & Guest Speakers

Ambassador Thomas Gürber

Head of the UN Division at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)

Ambassador Patricia Danzi

Director General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Michel M. Liès

Chairman of Zurich Insurance Group

Professor Sandra Lavenex

Professor of European and International Politics

University of Geneva

Dr Joanna Bourke-Martignoni

Post-Doctoral Researcher & Project Coordinator, Gender Centre

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)

Eveline Hügli

Head of Mandate EAER / ETH, Swiss Federal Department of Econ. Affairs, Education & Research

Swiss Federal Audit Office (SFAO)

Professor Isabel Günther

Professor of Development Economics and Director of the NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation

ETH Zurich

Professor Thomas Gächter

Chair for Constitutional, Administrative, and Social Security Law
Dean of the Faculty of Law

University of Zurich

MP Doris Fiala

Member of the Swiss National Council, The Liberal Party

Professor Oliver Kessler

Professor for Public & Nonprofit Management and Head of research, development and consulting projects at IBR Lucerne, Lucerne School of Business

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Dr Jack Williams

President of the Institute for Global Negotiation, Consultant for UNITAR and Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po Paris

Professor Reto Steiner

Professor and Dean, School of Management and Law

Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Professor Petra Schmid

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

ETH Zurich

Professor Bertrand Loison

Vice Director and Head of Division, Data Science and Statistical Methods (DSSM) Division

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO)

Dr Christine Choirat

Head of Section Data Science & AI

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO)

Dr Martijn Sonnevelt

Executive Director of the World Food System Center

ETH Zurich

Dr Mirko Winkler

Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Professor Vally Koubi

Professor and Senior Scientist at the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)

ETH Zurich

Professor David Kaufmann

Assistant Professor of Spatial Development and Urban Policy and Deputy Director of the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development

ETH Zurich

Professor Ursula Renold

Professor of Education Systems

ETH Zurich

Professor Robert Perich

Professor of Practice and Academic Director Swiss School of Public Governance (SSPG)

ETH Zurich

Professor Tobias Schmidt

Head of the Energy and Technology Policy Group and Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP)

ETH Zurich