Associate Fellows

Associate Fellows are distinguished members invited by the GCSP who have the opportunity to share their experience and expertise with the GCSP community through a wide range of activities.

The GCSP provides them a forum to advance projects leveraging the GCSP’s resources, and to interact with GCSP experts, staff and course participants. They are formally affiliated with the GCSP, but based outside the Centre. Associated Fellows contribute to the GCSP's work of promoting peace around the world.

Key benefits for you

Associate Fellows are given the opportunity to: 

  • Share their expertise and experience with GCSP experts, staff and course participants
  • Build strong relations with experts and practitioners with different backgrounds and from different countries
  • Join a vibrant and dynamic network, representing a rich source of theoretical expertise and practical experience
  • Be associated with the GCSP for a mutually agreed-upon period of time.

Experts

Amb. Dr Sameh Aboul-Enein
Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt
Dr Khalid Al Khalifa
Founder & Executive Chairman of Board of Trustees of University College of Bahrain
Ms Honey Al Sayed
Creative Social Entrepreneur & Executive Leadership and Life Coach
Dr Jon Alterman
Senior Vice-President, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
Mr Jose Victor Angelo
Senior International Advisor, Geneva Centre for Security Policy Conta
Mr Nick Ashton-Hart
Geneva Representative, Digital Trade Network
Prof. Dr. Elena Atanassova-Cornelis
Associate Fellow, GCSP; Professor, University of Antwerp and Université Catholique de Louvain; Non-resident Fellow, International Center for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn, Estonia; Visting Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University in Japan
Prof. Joseph Bahout
Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut
Amb. Andrey G. Baklanov
Russian Federation Council
Dr Paul Barnes
Head, Risk & Resilience, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Mr Ben Baseley-Walker
GCSP Associate Fellow; Founder & Managing Partner at Andart Global
Dr Peter Batchelor
Associate Fellow at the GCSP and Director of Partnership and Advocacy at Principles for Peace Foundation
Mr Karim Emile Bitar
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) and Associate Professor of International Relations, University Saint Joseph in Beyrouth
Ambassador Barbara K. Bodine
Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Dr William Boothby
Former Air Commodore (1 star); Deputy Director, Legal Services, Royal Air Force, UK
Amb. Jean-Marc Boulgaris
Former Deputy Secretary of State of Switzerland
Mr Aaron Boyd
Cybersecurity Strategy and Technology Policy Expert
Mr Oli Brown
Associate Fellow, Chatham House; Senior Advisor, TrustWorks Global; Trustee, Conflict and Environment Observatory
Dr Christian Bühlmann
Regional Strategic Director at SICPA SA, former GCSP Chief of Staff, seconded by the Swiss Armed Forces.
Ms Gunilla Carlsson
Former Minister of International Development Cooperation of Sweden and member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, Stockholm
Dr Stuart Casey-Maslen
Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria
Dr Jorge Castilla-Echenique
Senior Advisor for Health Emergency Response and Acting Head of the WHO Surge and Crisis Respons
Mr Aapo Cederberg
CEO and Co-founder of Cyberwatch Finland
Amb Oleksandr Chalyi
Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
Dr Vicken Cheterian
Lecturer, Université de Genève, Global Studies Institute/Faculté des Lettres and Faculty, Webster University Geneva
Dr David A. Chikvaidze
Associate Fellow at the GCSP and former Chef de Cabinet of UNOG's Director General
Professor Shahram Chubin
Non-Resident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Dr Caty Clément
Senior Advisor at the International Advisory Team - Interpeace and Member of the Henry Dunant Prize Foundation Council
Prof. Victoria Curzon-Price
Professor Emerita, University of Geneva; Former Professor of Economics and Director, European Institute of the University of Geneva
Mr Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé
Former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; Former EU
Mr Nicholas Davis
Industry Professor and Co-Director of the Human Technology Institute (HTI) at the University of Technology
Gen. Yves De Kermabon
Special advisor to NATO; Vice-President, Mars Analogies
Gen. Patrick De Rousiers
Former Chairman, European Union Military Committee (CEUMC)
Elisabeth Decrey Warner
Founder of the NGO, Geneva Call
Mr Stephen Del Rosso
Program Director, International Peace and Security, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Ms Janine Di Giovanni
Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs
Mr Alan Doss
Executive Director, Kofi Annan Foundation
Dr Zaid Eyadat
Advisor, Emirates Policy Center
Mr Marc Finaud
Senior Advisor and Associate Fellow, Global Fellowship Initiative, GCSP
Prof. William A. Fischer
Professor of Innovation Management at IMB
Prof. William A. Fischer
Professor of Innovation Management at IMB
Dr Peter Foot
Professor Emeritus Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College and the Royal Military College, Canada; Former GCSP Academic Dean
Ms Miriam Fugfugosh
GCSP Associate Fellow and Associate Geneva Leadership Alliance
Dr Thomas Gauthier
Professor of Strategy at Emlyon Business School
Prof. Solange Ghernaouti
Director, Swiss Cybersecurity Advisory and Research Group, University of Lausanne
Lieutenant General (Retd) Dr. Dennis Gyllensporre
Associate Professor in Security Policy and Strategy at the Swedish Defence University and Former Force Commander for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)
Dr Laura Hammond
Head of Department and Senior Lecturer, Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
Prof. David Heymann
Head and Senior Fellow, Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House; Chairman, Public Health England
Ms Natascha Hryckow
Former Coordinator, United Nations Panel of Experts on Somalia
Amb. Wolfgang Ischinger
President of the Foundation Council and former Chairman, Munich Security Conference
Mr Pertti Jalasvirta
CEO of Jalasvirta Group
Dr Karl-Heinz Kamp
President, German Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS)
Ms Angela Kane
Former High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs; Senior Fellow, Vienna Centre for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Prof. Mukesh Kapila CBE
Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester
Prof. Juliette Kayyem
Former Assistant Secretary, Intergovernmental Affairs, Department of Homeland Security; Founder, Kayyem Solutions, LLC; Lecturer, Belfer Lecturer in International Security,Harvard's Kennedy School
Mr Kevin S. Kennedy
Associate Fellow at the GCSP and member of the Board of Directors of the Peace Operations Training Institute
Dr Ahmad Samih Khalidi
Senior Associate Member at St Antony's College, Oxford
Prof George Kohlrieser
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour, IMD
Dr Khalid Koser
Founding Executive Director of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF)
Chris Kremidas-Courtney
GCSP Associate Fellow and Senior Visiting Fellow and futurist on hybrid threats, resilience, and global strategy for the European Policy Centre
Mr Antoine Laham
Senior Political Officer, Office of the Joint Special Representative for the UN and League of Arab States for Syria
Prof. Anatol Lieven
Professor, Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar; Visiting Professor, War Studies Department, King's College London; Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Dr Robert Litwak
Vice President for Scholars, Director of International Security Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ms Siobhan MacDermott
Global Cybersecurity Public Policy Executive, Bank of America
Dr Rama Mani
Convenor, Enacting Global Transformation, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford; Founder, Theatre of Transformation Academy; Co-Founder, Home for Humanity; Founding Councilor, World Future Council
Mr Michael W. Meier
GCSP Associate Fellow, Visiting professor at Emory University School of Law and the acting director of the Emory International Humanitarian Law Clinic
Ms Souad Mekhennet
Correspondent, Washington Post
Prof Alvaro Mendez
Associate Fellow at the GCSP, Director of the Global South Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Academic Director at LSE IDEAS
Ms Monica Mendez Caballero
Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
Mr Theodore Murphy
Director for Special Assignments, The Berghof Foundation in Berlin, Germany
Amb. Chitra Narayanan
Former Ambassador of India to Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Holy See
Prof. Vitaly Naumkin
Director, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor and Chair, Department of Regional Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University
Ms S. Michele Nix
Former Senior Strategist and Chief Communications Officer, Ridge Global
Mr James Nixey
Head, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
Dr 'Funmi Olonisakin
Founding Director, African Leadership Centre, King's College London
Ms Christina Orisich
Associate Fellow within the Global fellowship Initiative at the GCSP
Mr Ankit Panda
Associate Fellow at the GCSP and Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Mr William R. Phillips
Associate Fellow, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and Former Chief of Staff, MINUSMA, United Nations
Prof. Dr. Etienne Piguet
Professor of Geography of mobilities, University of Neuchâtel
Prof. Paul R. Pillar
Former CIA Senior Analyst and Manager; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University
Mr Dave Piscitello
Vice President Security and ICT Coordination, ICANN
Dr Gilles Poumerol
Former Acting Chief, International Health Regulations Secretariat & global Functions (IHR), World Health Organization
Amb. Michael Reiterer
Distinguished Professor at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) of the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG)
Colonel (ret) Wolfgang Richter
Former Security Analyst, Senior Associate with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin
Prof. Robert I. Rotberg
Former Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Prof. Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Col. (Retd) Bruno Russi
Associate Fellow at the GCSP; Colonel (Retd), Former Swiss Defence Attaché
Prof. René Schwok
Director, MAS in International Security, Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva
Mr Tim Sebastian
Host, Conflict Zone, DW
Dr Jamie Shea
Professor of Strategy and Security of the Strategy and Security Institute, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Gen. Sir Alexander Richard David Shirreff
Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR)
Dr Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings India
Prof. Timothy Sisk
Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
Amb. Ali Asghar Soltanieh
Multilateral Diplomat on International Security and Disarmament & Nuclear Scientist
Mr Scott Spence
Programme Director, National Implementation Measures (NIM) Programme at VERTIC London
Professor Gareth Stansfield
Professor of Middle East Politics and the Al-Qasimi Chair of Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter
Admiral - USN (Ret) James Stavridis
Dean, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO
Mr Matthias Stiefel
Founder and Vice-Chairman, Interpeace; Managing Director, Stiefel, Irvin & Associates SA and Andorinha Lda
Col. (GS, Retd) Johan Swennen
Former Deputy Commander, Military Intelligence and Security Service, Belgian Armed Forces
Amb. Fred Tanner
Visiting Professor at The Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID) and Former GCSP Director
Mr Jean-Pierre Therre
Executive Vice President, Head of Technology Risk and Corporate Continuity Management, Pictet & Cie Group
Dr Dmitri V. Trenin
Director, Carnegie Moscow Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Prof. Catherine Turner
Associate Fellow within the Global fellowship Initiative at the GCSP, Professor of International Law at Durham University, and Deputy Director of the Durham Global Security Institute
Dr Paul Vallet
Lecturer and Researcher in European, American and Russian History
Amb. D.B.Venkatesh Varma
Former Ambassador of India to The Russian Federation
Dr Alexandre Vautravers
Associate Fellow at the GCSP, Editor-in-Chief of the Swiss Military Review (RMS+), Scientific Director of the Centre d'Histoire et de Prospective Militaires (CHPM) in Pully
Mr Alexander Verbeek
Founder, Institute for Planetary Security
Dr. Konrade von Bremen
CEO of SWAN Isotopen AG
Amb. Franz von Daeniken
Former State Secretary and Political Director in the Swiss Foreign Ministry
Mr Karim Wasfi
Founder of Peace through Art and former Chief Conductor and Director of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra
Prof. Andreas Wenger
Professor, International and Swiss Security Policy, ETH Zurich; Director, Center for Security Studies (CSS)
Dr Carsten Wieland
Political Advisor and Former Senior Expert for Intra-Syrian Talks in the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations, Geneva
Ms Mona Yacoubian
Senior Advisor to the Vice President of Middle East & North Africa, United States Institute for Peace (USIP)
Mr Vicente Paolo Yu
independent expert and consultant for various United Nations agencies and NGOs

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