Graduate Institute of International Studies

The Graduate Institute of International Studies, best known as HEI (French: Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales), was founded in 1927 as one of the first institutions in the world dedicated to the study of international relations

International relations

International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...

. In 2007, HEI merged with the Graduate Institute of Development Studies and together they became the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies is a highly selective postgraduate educational and research institute situated in Geneva, Switzerland...

(IHEID).

History

The Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI) was founded in 1927 at the time of the League of Nations by William Rappard

William Rappard

William Emmanuel Rappard was an influential academic and diplomat of the interwar-period, a passionate defender of the international scene....

and Paul Mantoux

Paul Mantoux

Paul Mantoux was a historian and has written about the industrial revolution in Great Britain.He was a Co-Founder of the Graduate Institute of International Studies and interpreter for Georges Clemenceau at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.-Works:* La Révolution industrielle au XVIIIe siècle...

. It was, in accordance with its statutes, "an institution intended to provide to students of all nations the means of undertaking and pursuing international studies, most notably of a historic, judicial, economic, political and social nature."

The Institute was created in Geneva in light of the development of different international and intergovernmental institutions that were established there. It was for a long time one of the few academic institutions in the world to deal exclusively with international relations, thus contributing to the renown of international Geneva. It represented a unique interface between the theory and practice of international relations and responds to the growing importance of international relations in today's world.

HEI was located in a beautiful park on the shores of Lake Geneva, very close to numerous international organisations, NGOs, as well as many multinational firms. This location is ideally suited for conducting fundamental and applied research on contemporary issues and fostering policy debates among academics, diplomats and decision-makers.

Merger

HEI and the Graduate Institute of Development Studies

Graduate Institute of Development Studies

The Graduate Institute of Development Studies was a graduate school in Geneva, Switzerland focusing on development studies...

(IUED) merged in 2008 to create a new institution, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies is a highly selective postgraduate educational and research institute situated in Geneva, Switzerland...

(IHEID).

This new Institute combines in a unique manner the fields of Development and International Relations and offers a much wider choice of teaching and research activities.

Prominent graduates

Government, diplomacy and international organizations

Catarina de Albuquerque, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Access to Safe Drinking water and Sanitation
Antony Alcock
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, historian and Ulster unionist politician
Shara L. Aranoff
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, Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission
Hédi Annabi
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, former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Haiti
Kofi Annan
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, former-Secretary-General
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of the United Nations
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, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Youssouf Bakayoko
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, Foreign Minister of Cote d'Ivoire and Ambassador
David Bakradze
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, Chairman of the Georgian Parliament and former Foreign Affairs Minister
Anthony Banbury
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, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support
Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
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and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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in 2005
Michael D. Barnes
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, member of US Congress from 1979 to 1987.
István Bibó, former Minister of State of Hungary
Marcel André Boisard
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, Under-Secretary General to the United Nations and former Executive Director of United Nations Institute for Training and Research
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Anthony Banbury
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, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support
Micheline Calmy-Rey
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, President of the Swiss Federal Council
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and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
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Shelby Cullom Davis
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, US Ambassador to Switzerland between 1969 and 1975 and philanthropist
Arthur E. Dewey
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, former Assistant UN Secretary-General
Arthur Dunkel
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, director-general of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
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(GATT) between 1980 and 1993
Patricia Espinosa, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
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of Mexico
Jack Fahy
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, US government official and suspected spy during WWII.
Abul Fateh
Abul Fateh
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, First Foreign Minister of Bangladesh
Kurt Furgler
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, former President of Switzerland and member of the Swiss Federal Council
Evan P. Garcia, Ambassador of the Philippines to the United Nations Office in Geneva
Rick Gilmore
Rick Gilmore
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, American economist and scholar
He Yafei
He Yafei
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, Assistant Foreign Minister of China
Manouchehr Ganji
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, Iranian human rights activist and former Education Minister
Claude Heller
Claude Heller
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, Ambassador of Mexico to the United Nations in New York
Philipp Hildebrand
Philipp Hildebrand
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, President of the Swiss National Bank
Swiss National Bank
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Antonio Hodgers, Member of the Swiss National Council
Annemarie Huber-Hotz
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, Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2000 and 2007
Kamil Idris
Kamil Idris
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, director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization
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(WIPO) between 1997 and 2008
Sandra Kalniete
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, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
Latvia
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between 2002 and 2004, current member of the European Parliament
Jakob Kellenberger
Jakob Kellenberger
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, President of the ICRC
International Committee of the Red Cross
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Ulrich Lehner, Ambassador of Switzerland to France and Monaco
Giorgio Malinverni
Giorgio Malinverni
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, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
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Paul Joseph James Martin
Paul Joseph James Martin
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, Foreign Minister of Canada between 1963 and 1968
Yōichi Masuzoe
Yoichi Masuzoe
is a Japanese politician and a member of the House of Councillors who was Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from 2007 to 2009. He is also a well-known face on Japanese TV shows.- Career :...

, Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan between 2007 and 2009 and member of the Japanese House of Councillors.
Omer Tshiunza Mbiye, Former Minister of Economy of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Jacques Moreillon
Jacques Moreillon
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, former Director General of the ICRC
International Committee of the Red Cross
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Robert McFarlane
Robert McFarlane
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, United States National Security Advisor between 1983 and 1985
Ram Niwas Mirdha
Ram Niwas Mirdha
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, Former Cabinet Minister in India
A. H. M. Moniruzzaman
A. H. M. Moniruzzaman
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, Ambassador of Bangladesh to Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg
Kamel Morjane
Kamel Morjane
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, Former Defence Minister and Foreign Minister of Tunisia
Mauricio Mulder
Mauricio Mulder
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, Member of Peruvian Congress
Jacques Myard
Jacques Myard
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, Member of the National Assembly of France
Saïd Ben Mustapha, Foreign Minister of Tunisia between 1997-1999
Robert G. Neumann
Robert G. Neumann
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, American Ambassador and politician
El Hadj Amadou Niang, Former Ambassador of Senegal to the United Kingdom
Francois Nordmann, Former Ambassador of Switzerland to France and Monaco
Cyrille Oguin, Ambassador of Benin to the United States and Mexico
Kristiina Ojuland
Kristiina Ojuland
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, Former Foreign Minister of Estonia and current member of the European Parliament
Andrzej Olechowski
Andrzej Olechowski
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, Former Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Fatsah Ouguergouz
Fatsah Ouguergouz
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, Judge at the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
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Hans-Gert Poettering, long-time President of the European Parliament
Meta Ramsay, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale
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, Member of the UK House of Lords
House of Lords
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Michael Reiterer
Michael Reiterer
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, Ambassador of the European Commission
European Commission
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to Switzerland
Switzerland
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Haroldo Rodas
Haroldo Rodas
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, Foreign Minister of Guatemala
Jean-Pierre Roth
Jean-Pierre Roth
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, Former Chairman of the Swiss National Bank
Swiss National Bank
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Christos Rozakis
Christos Rozakis
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, first vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights
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André Simonazzi, Vice Chancellor of the Swiss Federal Council
Zalman Shoval
Zalman Shoval
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, former Knesset member and Israeli Ambassador to the US
Mervat Tallawy
Mervat Tallawy
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, Egyptian politician, former UN under-secretary and executive secretary of ESCWA
Albert Tevoedjre, Former Minister of Information of Benin
Ton That Thien
Ton That Thien
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, Former Cabinet Minister and public intellectual in Viet Nam
Nina Vajić
Nina Vajić
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, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
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Gustavo-Adolfo Vargas, Former Ambassador of Nicaragua
Nicaragua
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to the United Nations Office in Geneva
Christian Wenaweser
Christian Wenaweser
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, Ambassador of Liechtenstein to the United Nations
Abdulqawi Yusuf
Abdulqawi Yusuf
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, judge at the International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice
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Academia

Andrew W. Cordier
Andrew W. Cordier
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, former President of Columbia University
Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber
Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber
is the Founding Director of the at and has been teaching on issues of state, international security, self-determination, diplomacy, and crisis diplomacy at Princeton's and the since 1988...

, Professor of political science at Princeton University
Rüdiger Dornbusch, longtime professor at the MIT Economics Department
Saul Friedländer
Saul Friedländer
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, 2008 Pulitzer Price recipient and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
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, (see below)
John H. Herz
John H. Herz
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, American international relations scholar
Leonid Hurwicz
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, 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics
Hans Joachim Morgenthau, leading political scientist, pursued post-graduate work at the Institute
Hernando de Soto
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, Economist and President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy
Institute for Liberty and Democracy
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(ILD)
Lyal S. Sunga, renowned jurist
Emanuel Treu, Dean of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (1975-1976) and Austrian ambassador to the United Nations

Private sector

Nobuyuki Idei
Nobuyuki Idei
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, Chairman and Group CEO of Sony Corporation between 1999 and 2005
Isabella Pedrazzini, Director of Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie Private Bank Limited
Lynn Forester de Rothschild
Lynn Forester de Rothschild
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, CEO of E.L. Rothschild
Brad Smith, Microsoft
Microsoft
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Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary

Writers and journalists

Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
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, award-winning Mexican author
Jean-Pierre Péroncel-Hugoz, French journalist and writer
Thierry Hentsch, Swiss-Canadian philosopher and political thinker
Imran Nazar Hosein
Imran Nazar Hosein
Imran Nazar Hosein is an International Islamic Philosopher, Scholar and author, specialising in world politics, economy, eschatology , modern socio-economic/political issues and expert on international affairs...

, Islamic scholar
Boris Mouravieff, Russian historian
Jon Woronoff
Jon Woronoff
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, American writer

Miscellaneous

Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
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Princess Nora of Liechtenstein
Princess Nora of Liechtenstein
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Kathryn Wasserman Davis
Kathryn Wasserman Davis
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, American philanthropist

Prominent faculty

Georges Abi-Saab
Georges Abi-Saab
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- Honorary Professor, taught at the Graduate Institute , former ad hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice, former Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR), currently Chairman, Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization
Bolaji Akinyemi
Bolaji Akinyemi
Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi is a Nigerian professor of political science who was his country's External Affairs Minister from 1985 to late 1987. He is chairman of the National Think Tank.-Early life, academic career, and personal life:...

- visiting professor in 1977
Carl Jacob Burckhardt
Carl Jacob Burckhardt
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- Swiss diplomat and historian
Lucius Caflisch
Lucius Caflisch
Lucius Caflisch is a Swiss international law specialist.Lucius Caflisch was a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva...

- judge at the European Court of Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is a supra-national court established by the European Convention on Human Rights and hears complaints that a contracting state has violated the human rights enshrined in the Convention and its protocols. Complaints can be brought by individuals or...

, member of the UN International Law Commission
International Law Commission
The International Law Commission was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 for the "promotion of the progressive development of international law and its codification."It holds an annual session at the United Nations Office at Geneva....
Guglielmo Ferrero
Guglielmo Ferrero
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- Italian historian
Saul Friedländer
Saul Friedländer
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- after his PhD at HEI he taught there in summer semesters from 1963 to 1988
Hans Kelsen - taught international law between 1934 and 1940
Olivier Long
Olivier Long
Olivier Long was a Swiss Ambassador and the director-general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade from May 6, 1968 to October 1, 1980.Long was born in Petit-Veyrier, Geneva...

- Former director-general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Paul Mantoux
Paul Mantoux
Paul Mantoux was a historian and has written about the industrial revolution in Great Britain.He was a Co-Founder of the Graduate Institute of International Studies and interpreter for Georges Clemenceau at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.-Works:* La Révolution industrielle au XVIIIe siècle...

- co-founder of the Institute.
Theodor Meron
Theodor Meron
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- taught international law between 1991 and 1995
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian economist, philosopher, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern Libertarian movement and the "Austrian School" of economic thought.-Biography:-Early life:...

- professor of international economic relations between 1934 and 1940
Robert Mundell
Robert Mundell
Robert Mundell, CC is a Nobel Prize-winning Canadian economist. Currently, Mundell is a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong....

- Nobel Prize of economics, taught until 1975
Gunnar Myrdal
Gunnar Myrdal
Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the...

- Nobel Prize of economics in 1974
Bertrand Ramcharan
Bertrand Ramcharan
Dr. Bertrand G. Ramcharan, from Guyana, a former United Nations official who once held functional diplomatic status, was elected in January 2011 President of UPR Info, an non-governmental organisation based in Geneva working to promote and strengthen the Universal Periodic Review...

- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and first holder of the IHEID Swiss Chair of Human Rights (2006)
William Rappard
William Rappard
William Emmanuel Rappard was an influential academic and diplomat of the interwar-period, a passionate defender of the international scene....

- co-founder and director of the Institute (1928) and director of the Mandate Department of the League of Nations
League of Nations
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Wilhelm Röpke
Wilhelm Röpke
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- professor for international economics between 1937 and 1966.
Jacob Viner
Jacob Viner
Jacob Viner was a Canadian economist and is considered with Frank Knight and Henry Simons one of the "inspiring" mentors of the early Chicago School of Economics in the 1930s: he was one of the leading figures of the Chicago faculty.- Biography :Viner was born in 1892 in Montreal, Quebec to...

- Canadian economist
Hans Wehberg - German international law professor and pacifist

External links

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Official Website

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