More than 140 Graduate Institute faculty, researchers and students are actively working on the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. These activities span all 17 goals, and include research projects, publications, events, teaching, or are part of external initiatives and partnerships. Below you can explore our faculty, researchers and students working on the SDGs.

Faculty Researchers Students All
Liliana B. Andonova

Liliana B. Andonova

Professor
Political Science / International Relations
liliana.andonova@graduateinstitute.ch https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/faculty/liliana-andonova
SDGs:
All SDGs
Topics:
Engagement with business & non-state actors | Multilateral Governance | Financing the SDGs | Overall Agenda 2030 & the SDGs
News:
Institute wins SNIS grant to research public-private partnerships | Effectiveness of Partnerships: Florence hosts 2nd academic partners meeting | ‘Does successful emissions reduction lie in the hands of non-state rather than state actors? ‘
Publications:
Governance Entrepreneurs – International Organizations and the Rise of Global Public-Private Partnerships | ‘Does successful emissions reduction lie in the hands of non-state rather than state actors? ‘
Research:
Effectiveness of Partnerships for Advancing the SDG: Behavioural Pathways and Impacts
Teaching:
Governance of Environment and Sustainability
Jean-Louis Arcand

Jean-Louis Arcand

Professor
International Economics, International Development
jean-louis.arcand@graduateinstitute.ch https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/arcand
SDGs:
123568101116
Topics:
Monitoring & review processes | Regional--national & local policies
Teaching:
Advanced Development Microeconomics
Christina Atekmangoh

Christina Atekmangoh

Researcher
Anthropology and Sociology of Development
christina.atekmangoh@graduateinstitute.ch http://graduateinstitute.ch/fr/home/research/research-news.html/_/news/research/2017/phd-thesis-on-transnational-migr
Topics:
Regional--national & local policies
Research:
Migration, Gender, and family: the moral economy of transnational Cameroonian migrants remittances
Valentina Baiamonte

Valentina Baiamonte

Research Assistant, PhD Student
Political Science / International Relations
valentina.baiamonte@graduateinstitute.ch
SDGs:
713
Research:
Coalitions’ formation: Interest groups’ success in the EU energy policy-making process
Gopalan Balachandran

Gopalan Balachandran

Professor
International History
gopalan.balachandran@graduateinstitute.ch https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/faculty/gopalan-balachandran
SDGs:
91681012
Topics:
Overall Agenda 2030 & the SDGs | Monitoring & review processes | Social awareness & behaviour change
Publications:
Governing capital, labor, and nature in a changing world | Indefinite transits: mobility and confinement in the age of steam
Teaching:
History, Theory, and Practice of Development | Race and Mobility: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Adriana Bessa

Adriana Bessa

Researcher
International Law
adriana.bessa@graduateinstitute.ch
SDGs:
25
Topics:
Overall Agenda 2030 & the SDGs | Monitoring & review processes | Regional--national & local policies
Research:
R4D project: Towards Food Sustainability: Reshaping the Coexistence of Different Food Systems in South America and Africa (FoodSAF) | Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)
Aditya Bharadwaj

Aditya Bharadwaj

Professor
Anthropology and Sociology of Development
aditya.bharadwaj@graduateinstitute.ch https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/faculty/aditya-bharadwaj
SDGs:
5
Topics:
Overall Agenda 2030 & the SDGs
Teaching:
Gender and Development: From Theory to Practice
Thomas Biersteker

Thomas Biersteker

Professor
Political Science / International Relations
thomas.biersteker@graduateinstitute.ch https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/faculty/thomas-biersteker
SDGs:
All SDGs
Topics:
Financing the SDGs | Overall Agenda 2030 & the SDGs | Monitoring & review processes | Regional--national & local policies | Multilateral Governance
Events:
Financing the United Nations Development System | Introducing the Graduate Institute’s SDG Portal | From intergovernmental to multi-stakeholder governance: Tracing the effects of IO financing reforms | From Science to Practice: Strengthening Research Uptake to Achieve the SDGs
News:
Improving the Effectiveness of the EU Cyber Sanctions Regime | Informal governance in world politics
Research:
United Nations Reform and Effectiveness
External Initiatives:
Genève Internationale
Riccardo Bocco

Riccardo Bocco

Professor
Anthropology and Sociology of Development
riccardo.bocco@graduateinstitute.ch https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/faculty/riccardo-bocco
SDGs:
16
News:
The Pandemic, the American ‘Peace Plan’ and (what is left of) Palestine
Publications:
Between Security and Apartheid: Cinematic Representations of the West Bank Wall
Teaching:
Power State and Violence | Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice: Comparative Perspectives