Geneva University Institute for International Studies
The Geneva University Institute for International Studies ( IUHEI or HEI ) was an institute for studies of international relations in Geneva . The French name of the institute was Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales . In 2008 the HEI and the University Institute for Development (IUED) were replaced by the University Institute for International Studies and Development (IHEID).
The HEI was an autonomous institute of the University of Geneva and was located in the Villa Barton on Lake Geneva . It was created in the 1930s, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, as a center for what was later to be called the neoliberals . The institute's founder and first director was William Rappard .
Personalities
Lecturers
- Saul Friedländer , historian
- Michael A. Heilperin , Associate Professor from 1935 to 1938
- Georges Kaeckenbeeck , lawyer, from 1937 to 1939
- Hans Kelsen , taught international law from 1934 to 1940
- Theodor Meron , taught international law from 1991 to 1995
- Ludwig von Mises , professor for international economic relations from 1934 to 1940
- Wilhelm Röpke , professor for international economics from 1937 to 1966
- Emanuel Treu , Austrian diplomat, visiting professor
Graduates
- Kofi Annan , 7th Secretary General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006
- Sibusiso Bengu , South African university professor, Vice-Chancellor of Fort Hare University and Minister of Education (1994–1999) in the Mandela cabinet
- Micheline Calmy-Rey , Federal Councilor from 2002 to 2011
- Andrew Cordier , UN official
- Rudiger Dornbusch , German-American economist and professor at MIT for many years
- Arthur Dunkel , Swiss economist and General Director of GATT from 1980 to 1993
- Philipp Hildebrand , President of the Swiss National Bank from 2010 to 2012
- Sandra Kalniete , Latvian Foreign Minister from 2002 to 2004 and EU Commissioner for a short time in 2004
- Beat Kappeler , Swiss social scientist and journalist
- Jakob Kellenberger , Swiss diplomat and President of the ICRC from 2000 to 2012
- Anne Namakau Mutelo , Namibian diplomat
- Michael Reiterer , Ambassador of the European Commission in Bern from 2007 to 2011
- Jean-Pierre Roth , President of the Swiss National Bank from 2001 to 2009
- Illa Salifou , Nigerien diplomat
- Hernando de Soto , Peruvian economist and President of the Instituto de Libertad y Democracia (ILD)
- Emanuel Treu , Austrian diplomat, permanent representative of Austria at the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva (from 1960 to 1966), director of the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna
Web links
- Traditional school of high diplomacy . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine online, February 8, 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ Merger of two institutes at SF Tagesschau.
- ↑ Milène Wegmann: Early Neoliberalism and European Integration, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2002, p. 137 f.