International Organizations MBA

 

Pierre Allan (Switzerland)

Professor Pierre Allan is Professor of Political Science at the University of Geneva (since 1984.) After studying at the University of Lausanne (M.Sc. in Economics and M.A. in Sociology), he obtained his PhD at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He has been visiting professor in Berkeley, Berlin, Grenoble, Paris, Prague, Stanford, Zurich, amongst others. He has published a number of articles and books, the most recent of which is entitled “What is a Just Peace?” (Oxford University Press, 2008, co-edited with Alexis Keller). His current research is on “Unjust and Just Peace” as well as on the concept of Global Care. 

Gillian Anderson (Italy)

Gillian L. Anderson is an international strategy and performance consultant with considerable experience working with leading multilateral organizations, NGOs, start-up enterprises and private sector multinationals in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Ms. Anderson's work has had a notable impact on the effectiveness of the international aid system, including: the restoration of food security in post-war Iraq; ensuring UN system readiness in the event of a global pandemic; enhancing donor capacity to stimulate UN reform; and improving the capabilities of international organizations to define strategy and manage risk in complex contexts such as the Palestinian Territories and Somalia. Prior to operating as an independent consultant, Ms. Anderson worked for Bain & Company, the Bridgespan Group and was a partner with a small international consultancy firm. Ms. Anderson holds a Masters in Management, Economics & International Relations from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

 

Federico Biagi (Italy)

Dr. Federico Biagi holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and is Associate Professor in Public Economics at the University of Padova, Italy. His research interests include investment behaviour, innovation and growth, policies for innovation, industrial and fiscal policy, regulation and antitrust. 

 

Taylor Brown (UK)

Dr. Taylor Brown is Principal Consultant with theIDLgroup. Taylor has 15 years experience of providing strategic analysis and policy advice, programme design and monitoring and evaluation to a wide range of international agencies. His recent work has focused on the political economy of development, systems and processes for strengthening accountability and transparency, state-building, social protection and basic service delivery. Taylor is an experienced facilitator of multi-stakeholder processes and works regularly with donors, governments and non-state actors to improve the coordination and effectiveness of development assistance. Taylor has worked on the design and delivery of development projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kosovo, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, and Zambia. He has consulted for AusAID, DFID, DANIDA, FAO, IFAD, The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NORAD, the OECD, Oxfam, the Shell Foundation, UNDP, USAID, the World Bank and WWF. Taylor holds a PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BA from the Univerity of California, Berkeley.

 

Wayne Cascio (USA)

Professor Wayne F. Cascio holds the Robert H.Reynolds Chair in Global Leadership at the University of Colorado Denver. He has served as president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (1992-1993), Chair of the SHRM Foundation (2007), the HR Division of the Academy of Management (1984), and as a member of the Academy of Management’s Board of Governors (2003-2006). He has authored or edited 24 books on human resource management, and is a two-time winner of the best-paper award from the Academy of Management Executive for his research on downsizing and responsible restructuring. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) in 2004, and in 2008 he was named by the Journal of Management as one of the most influential scholars in management in the past 25 years. Currently he serves as a senior editor of the Journal of World Business.

 

Xavier Debrun (USA)

Dr. Xavier Debrun holds a Ph.D. in International Economics from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. After a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Economics at Harvard, he joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2000,working mostly in the Fiscal Affairs Department, where he is currently the Deputy Head for fiscal policy, and the Research Department, where he contributed to the World Economic Outlook. In 2006-07, he was a Visiting Fellow at Bruegel—Brussel’s leading think tank on European issues—and a Visiting Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva. He has been teaching the international economics course at IOMBA since 2006. Dr. Debrun’s research interests include international policy coordination, the economics of monetary unions, and macro-fiscal issues, including the design and effectiveness of fiscal policy rules, and the stabilizing (or destabilizing) role of fiscal policy. His work has been published in leading professional journals, including the Econo c Journal, the European Economic Review, and Economic Policy.

 

Patrick De Pelsmacker (Belgium)

Patrick De Pelsmacker holds a Master’s degree and a PhD in Economics from Ghent University. He is currently a full professor of marketing at the University of Antwerp and a part-time professor of marketing at Ghent University (both in Belgium). He is a visiting lecturer at various business schools and universities, such as the Solvay Business School (ULB, Brussels), Università Ca’Foscari (Venice, Italy), the Institute for Business Studies (Moscow, Russia) and Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland). He teaches courses in marketing, marketing research, marketing communications, and marketing for cultural organizations and is a frequent lecturer in executive training courses and in-company training programs and a consultant for various companies and organizations. In the past, he has been the academic director of various research programs at the Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School, and has been the first dean of the Antwerp Management School. Currently, he is the research director of the Faculty of Applied Economics of the University of Antwerp and a member of the management team of that faculty.

 

Iddo Dror (India)

Dr. Iddo Dror has experience in various sectors (both for-profit and not-for-profit) in assignments spanning five continents. His professional interests span development (particularly the role of financial services therein), international business and management, and graduate level teaching. He holds a PhD in Economic and Social Sciences and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. For a more detailed overview of current activities and publications, click here.

 

Valerie Federico-Weinzierl (Germany)

Dr. Valerie Federico-Weinzierl completed her MBA and PhD studies at the Freie Universität Berlin; her PhD focused on “Collaboration and Partnerships between the United Nations and Business”. She advanced a career in the corporate sector with companies such as Mercedes Benz, Siemens and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Berlin and New York.Working for the World Economic Forum in Geneva (2000-2009) she managed for example the organization’s Corporate Global Citizenship and Partnering Against Corruption Initiatives, and gained substantial practical experience in managing Public-Private-Partnerships, for example, on anti-corruption and water. She currently works as a Special Projects Advisor on Corporate Governance and Business Engagement in Society with organizations such as the Basel Institute on Governance and the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA School of Governance (Berlin), and teaches MBA-level courses at the University of Geneva. Her focus lies on the role of business in society (including business engagement), on multistakehol r collaborations and Public-Private Partnerships, as well as on anti-corruption and ethics engagement of the corporate sector.

 

Emmanuel Fragnière (Switzerland)

Emmanuel Fragnière, CIA (Certified Internal Auditor), is a Professor of Service Management at the Haute École de Gestion of Geneva, Switzerland. He is also a Lecturer in Enterprise Risk Management at the Management School of the University of Bath, UK. Previously, he was a Commodity Risk Analyst at Cargill (Ocean Transportation) and a Senior Internal Auditor at Banque Cantonale Vaudoise, the fourth largest bank in Switzerland. His research is focused on the development of risk management models for decision-makers in the service sector. He has published several papers in academic journals such as Annals of Operations Research, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, Interfaces, and Management Science. He is the author (with Sullivan) of the book entitled Risk Management: Safeguarding Company Assets, Fifty-Minute Crisp Series, November 2006.

 

Eric Gerelle (Switzerland)

Dr. Eric Gerelle has been an international development consultant for 10 years. During that period he has consulted with organizations such as ILO, UNCTAD, WHO, WMO, World Bank, Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance, GIZ, Microinsurance Academy, Microinsurance Center, as well as with universities, enterprises and NGOs. Previously Dr Gerelle worked for 20 years in the IT industry firstly for a larger corporation and then for his own systems integration and knowledge management company. Following his BA he worked for 12 years at various universities in the US and Europe, teaching and conducting research in physics, mathematics and engineering.

 

Claudia Gonzalez (Switzerland)

Claudia Gonzalez is Head of Marketing of The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, where she manages branding, marketing and social media. Claudia was the Head of Public Relations and Special Projects for two years in UNHCR and almost eight years for the World Economic Forum. She is a strategist with 15 year experience in integrated communications specialized in social media, celebrities and branding. Claudia was previously a Diplomat for her home country Mexico and was a press correspondent for a number of years in different countries. Claudia’s academic background includes a Masters from LSE on Media and Communications.

 

Pamela Hartigan (UK)

Dr Pamela Hartigan has been the Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship since 2009. She is also founding partner of Volans Ventures, an organization launched in 2008 focused on building innovative scalable solutions to challenges affecting our future. Prior to starting Volans, Dr Hartigan was the first Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (2000-2008), and was also on the World Economic Forum Managing Board. Throughout her career, she has held leadership positions in multilateral health organizations, educational institutions and entrepreneurial nonprofits. She is currently a Trustee or on the Board of Advisors of several social enterprises: Bamboo Finance (Geneva), CAMBIA (Australia), INDEX (Denmark), GEXSI (Germany), Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation (USA), Ventures in Development (China),Waste Ventures (India) and The Story Museum (UK). She holds Masters' degrees in Economics and Public Health and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology (Georgetown University,Washington ). Dr Hartigan is a frequent lecturer on social entrepreneurship and innovation at graduate schools of business in the USA, Europe and Asia, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Business School.

 

Martin Hoesli (Switzerland)

Martin Hoesli is a professor of real estate investments at the University of Geneva (Geneva Finance Research Institute and Swiss Finance Institute) and a professor of finance at the University of Aberdeen (Business School). He is a former president of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and of the Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics, and an academic fellow of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He has been a visiting professor at several European, U.S. and New Zealand universities. He has published six books and over 80 scholarly articles on real estate. He is a board member of the Swiss Financial Analysts Association (SFAA) and of the European Real Estate Society (ERES).

 

Karen Iles (UK)

Karen Iles is an independent consultant. Her work includes organisational change and learning; program design and appraisal; client based and demand-led service delivery, livelihoods approaches; participatory survey, monitoring and impact assessment methods; evidence policy making and role of projects; institutional reform for livestock service delivery; and gender issues. Ms. Iles works with organisations in designing learning processes at a strategic level that support both the organisation and individuals to put new concepts, ideas and policies into practice. She supports teams to find creative ways to derive lessons from their work and integrate these into their change and organisation learning processes – including through interactive learning materials, seminars and workshops, and toolkits/ guidance notes. Karen Iles holds an M.Sc. in Tropical Animal Production and Health from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and is currently undertaking doctoral studies (Ed.D.) at the University of Bristol.

 

Bruce Jenks (USA)

Dr. Bruce Jenks is a senior non-resident fellow at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and currently lectures at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Dr. Jenks served as Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations Development Program until 2010. For ten years he was responsible for UNDP’s resource mobilization, and for relations with the Executive Board, donors, UN agency partners, the World Bank, OECD/DAC, the private sector and civil society. He exercised overall coordination of UNDP’s mandate to provide system wide leadership on the Millennium Development Goals (2002-04). He led major change processes and the introduction of results based management in UNDP. The Secretary General appointed him as the first Director of the UN Office in Brussels. Dr Jenks also served as member of the OECD/DAC Reflection Group charged with making recommendations on the future of the OECD/DAC. He had o  rsight of the Executive Secretariat to the Private Sector Commission launched by the Secretary General and co-chaired by Ernesto Zedillo and Paul Martin. He was co-chair of the Secretary General’s Task Force on strengthening relations with the European Union. He served as a chair of the UN system wide NGO Committee. Dr. Jenks has a Ph.D. from Oxford University, and an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has been a guest speaker at universities and conferences in some 40 countries and has authored numerous articles and policy papers. Dr. Jenks was awarded an OBE for his services to the United Nations in 2011.

 

Olaf Meyer (Germany)

Olaf Meyer holds a Masters‘and a PhD degree from the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. He worked for 17 years in corporate Finance in a multinational company (Michelin). He was deeply involved in investment decisions making and conclusion of major financing transactions.He currently heads the Institute of Finance and Pension at the Haute Ecole de Gestion in Fribourg Switzerland and works in different research projects aiming to increase the performance of pension funds. His focus lies on the practical applications of finance and he is consulting corporate, pension funds and financial institutions.

 

Frank Missonier-Piera (Switzerland)

Franck Missonier-Piera is a professor of financial accounting at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), and a Certified Management Accounting (Canada). He has previously been a Professor at ESSEC Business School (France), HEC-Lausanne (Switzerland) and HEC-Montréal (Canada). His work focuses on the governance role of accounting information. His research has been published in leading journals both nationally and internationally. He has recently published a book on IFRS (“Financial Reporting under IFRS”, Wiley, 2010).

 

Bernard Morard (Switzerland)

Professor Bernard Morard has been the Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Geneva since 2007. He holds a Ph.D. in Management and a State Doctorate from the University of Aix Marseille III. His research and publications relate to the fields of analytical accounting, management control and finance.

 

Drazen Petrovic (Switzerland)

Dr. Drazen Petrovic is the Principal Legal Officer in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the International Labour Office in Geneva. He has rich experience with various international organizations belonging to the UN system. He holds a Ph.D. in international public law from the University of Geneva, LL.M from the European University Institute, Florence and the University of Belgrade, and LL.B. from Sarajevo University Law School. In parallel to his career as an international civil servant, he has been teaching courses in international law at the University of Geneva and has written several papers in international law journals.

 

Susan C. Schneider (Switzerland)

Susan C. Schneider is Professor of Human Resource Management at HEC Genève of the University of Geneva. Professor Schneider’s teaching and research activities focus on intercultural management, diversity and corporate social responsibility. Her book (written with Jean Louis Barsoux) is entitled Managing Across Cultures (1997, 2nd edition 2003 Pearson Financial Times) and has been translated into Chinese, French and Dutch. Professor Schneider is currently visiting professor at NOVA University, School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal. She was on the faculty of INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France (1985-1995), and has taught at ESSEC (France), Pace University, and New York University Graduate Schools of Business (Stern) in New York City (USA). Prior to her academic career, Dr. Schneider worked as a clinician and clinical director for several mental health care programs in New York. Dr. Schneider has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Adelphi University (New York, USA) and a postdoctoral degree (APC) in ganization analysis from New York University Graduate School of Business (New York, USA).

 

Hugo Slim (UK)

Dr Hugo Slim is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford. Hugo has worked in academia, humanitarian agencies and international business. He managed humanitarian operations with Save the Children UK and the United Nations in Morocco, Sudan, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and the Middle East from 1983-1993. He was Reader in International Humanitarianism at Oxford Brookes University from 1994-2003 and has led major evaluations of humanitarian and development work across Africa for many of the world’s leading UN agencies and NGOs. From 2003-07, he was Chief Scholar at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva where he led major research on the protection of civilians and mediation in armed conflicts. In 2007, he co-founded Malachite Group and has advised clients like BP, Rio Tinto, Vodafone and G4S on human rights and conflict resolution in emerging markets, working in 13 African countries, India and Iraq. Hugo is an award-winning academic and the author of Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War; Protection: A Guide for Humanitarian Agencies and more than sixty academic papers. He has an MA in Theology from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Humanitarian Ethics from Oxford Brookes University.

 

Paul Tiffany (USA)

Professor Paul Tiffany is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Professor Tiffany is also a visiting professor at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, AVT Business School in Denmark, and Paul Cezanne University in Aix en Provence, France. In addition to his teaching, Professor Tiffany is Director of Paul Tiffany & Associates, a management training and consulting firm serving organizations in the U.S. and abroad. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Antonio Vegezzi (Switzerland)

Antonio Vegezzi is currently President of Capital Italia, a Luxemburg Mutual Fund, and serves in a number of advisory boards. He joined the Capital Group, one of the largest global asset managers, in 1992 where he took on the responsibilities of President of the Swiss subsidiary and, later on, as a member of the firm’s Los Angeles based Management Committee and Board of Directors. Mr. Vegezzi also served two terms (until December 2010) as a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation, the supervisory body of the IASB (International Accounting Standards Board), the international organization that sets global standards for financial reporting. As well at the University of Geneva, he also lectures at the USI (Università della Svizzera Italiana). Antonio Vegezzi graduated at the University of Geneva and the Università Cattolica of Milan.

 

Achim von Heynitz (Germany)

Achim von Heynitz has over 30 years of international consulting and management experience, including eight years as Director of the World Bank’s department of Corporate Resource Management, and five years as Director of the Front Office Planning and Budget department at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Since his retirement from the World Bank, Mr. von Heynitz is a management consultant with various international organizations, including the AfDB, IFAD, FAO, ILO, CTBTO, OPCW et al. Mr. von Heynitz holds an MBA from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, where he also undertook post graduate studies.

 

Daniel Warner (Switzerland)

Dr. Daniel Warner earned his BA in Philosophy and Religion from Amherst College, USA, and a PhD in Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has lectured and published extensively on US foreign policy, ethics, refugees, international law and international relations theory. Author, editor or co-editor of eleven books and numerous refereed articles, his work has been translated into Arabic, Azeri, French, German, Persian, and Russian. He has been an invited scholar by Australian National University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, the Japan Foundation and Oxford University. Dr. Warner is a frequent commentator in the media and has served as an advisor to the ILO, UNHCR and NATO. Dr. Warner is currently Assistant Director for International Affairs at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces.

 

Jeya Wilson (Switzerland)

Dr. Jeya Wilson is Executive Director of the IOMBA. Previously she worked in several sectors and countries including CEO of the World Heart Federation, Director of the Private Sector Division at UNDP, New York Vice President Global Alliances, CBM, CEO, Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry and New Zealand Honorary Consul in South Africa. Her doctorate is in international relations from Oxford where she was President of the Oxford Union and was runner up at the World Debating Championships.

 

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