Lecturers & Guest Speakers
Guest Speakers
Professor Manfred Elsig
Professor of International Relations and Managing Director
World Trade Institute of the University of Bern
Ambassador Patricia Danzi
Director General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Michel M. Liès
Chairman of Zurich Insurance Group
Block One: Contemporary Governance
Professor Sandra Lavenex
Professor of European and International Politics
University of Geneva
Dr Claire Somerville
Lecturer of International Affairs & Executive Director of the Gender Centre
Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies
Eveline Hügli
Head of Mandate EAER / ETH, Swiss Federal Department of Econ. Affairs, Education & Research
Swiss Federal Audit Office (SFAO)
Dr Deborah Kistler
Chief Operating Officer at the Center for Economic Development at UZH
University of Zurich
Dr Adina Rom
Executive Director of ETH for Development (ETH4D)
ETH Zurich
Professor Thomas Gächter
Chair for Constitutional, Administrative, and Social Security Law
Dean of the Faculty of Law
University of Zurich
Block Two: Public Management
Professor Nils Soguel
Professor of Public Finance
IDHEAP, University of Lausanne
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 Nicolas Bastardoz
Professor at the Department of Work & Organisation Studies
KU Leuven
Block Three: Policy Domains
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 Kostenwein
Lecturer of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering
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 Lint Barrage
Professor of Energy & Climate Economics
ETH Zurich
Dr Daniel Kopp
Lecturer at the Swiss Economic Institute
ETH Zurich