New Composition of the Geneva Academy Board

18 September 2024

Christian Bovet, the new president of our board and honorary professor of law at the University of Geneva, was recently welcomed at Villa Moynier by the executive committee led by Director Paola Gaeta. Professor Bovet was the dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva when the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights was founded and has closely followed its development ever since.

‘As a joint centre of the Geneva Graduate Institute and the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva, the Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights has become a leading institution in these fields of law that face constant challenges. I am honoured to serve as president of its board, with the firm intent to build on the institution’s renowned legacy,’ he said.

Christian Bovet is an honorary professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva, where he served as dean from 2007 to 2012. Prior to joining the faculty in 1998, he practised law for several years as a partner in a Geneva business law firm. He received an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School (New York) in 1988 and worked for over a year as a foreign associate with the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was appointed to the Swiss telecommunications regulator (ComCom) in 1999 and served as its vice-chairman from 2005 to 2011. Between 2009 and 2011, he co-chaired the working group responsible for proposing amendments to Swiss competition law. He currently chairs the Société académique de Genève and was previously the president of the council of the Walther Hug Foundation, which annually rewards the best Swiss doctoral theses in law and periodically honours outstanding law professors. He sits on the editorial board of the international journal Concurrences and is the vice-chairman of the board of BNP Paribas (Switzerland) SA.

Our new president is accompanied by several new members of the Geneva Academy Board, with the current composition as follows:

Christian Bovet
President of the Board and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Geneva

Vincent Chetail
Professor of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute

Madeline Garlick
Chief of the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section, UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Maya Hertig Randall
Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the Department of Public Law at the University of Geneva

Alexis Keller
Professor of Legal Philosophy and Head of the Department of Legal History at the University of Geneva Law Faculty

Nico Krisch
Professor of International Law and Head of the International Law Department
at the Geneva Graduate Institute

Etienne Kuster
Senior Adviser for Relations with Academic Circles, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Andreas Ziegler
Professor of International Law at the University of Lausanne

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