The Faculty

Participants in the Executive Master have the opportunity to be taught by leading academics in the fields of international law, international humanitarian law and international human rights law. The faculty featured on this page represents our faculty for the current academic year.

Professors and Lecturers

Foluke Adebisi

Professor of Law, University of Bristol

Cécile Aptel

Deputy Director, UNIDIR

Lindsey Cameron

Head of Thematic Legal Advisers, Legal Division, International Committee of the Red Cross

Vincent Chetail

President of the Board and Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Giovanni Distefano

Professor of International Law at the University of Neuchatel

Gloria Gaggioli

Former Director of the Geneva Academy and Associate/SNF Professor at the Law Faculty, University of Geneva

Olivier de Frouville

Professor of Public Law at the Panthéon-Assas University and Director of the Paris Human Rights Center

Tarcisio Gazzini

Professor of international law at the University of Padua

Jérôme de Hemptinne

Assistant Professor at Utrecht University

Robert Kolb

Professor of Public International Law at the Law Faculty, University of Geneva

Sandra Krähenmann

Deputy Head of Policy, Programmes and Legal, Geneva Call

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Regents Professor and Robina Professor of Law, Public Policy and Society, University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law, Queens University

Ben Saul

Challis Chair of International Law at The University of Sydney and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism

William A. Schabas

Professor of International Law at Middlesex University, London

Jamie Williamson

Executive Director of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers Association (ICoCA)

Teaching Assistants

Agustina Becerra Vazquez

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Shima Esmailian

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Ralph Loren-Eisendecher

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Dor Hai

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Victoria Priori

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Mina Radončić

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Katia Rosenblat

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Revaz Tkemaladze

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Tihao Zeng

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How We Work

Our teaching enables specialists to apply legal frameworks to complex situations and challenging processes.

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Executive Education

We provide training and short courses for professionals who want to deepen their expertise in a specific issue.

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Events

Our events provide a critical and scholarly forum for experts and practitioners to debate topical humanitarian, human rights and transitional justice issues.

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Alumni

The Geneva Academy alumni community is made up of over 700 members who work worldwide in the humanitarian and human rights fields.

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Teaching and interacting with students from all over the world and with such diverse backgrounds is an experience unrivalled in its rewards. In fact, my classes have become a place where we share our respective knowledge, my role being that of recalling over and over the role of public international law in the participants’ everyday professional lives, allowing them to strengthen and enhance the impact of their arguments.

Giovanni Distefano

Professor of International Law at the University of Neuchatel