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
Nina Kiderlin

Nina Kiderlin

Research Assistant, PhD Student
Anthropology and Sociology of Development, International Law
nina.kiderlin@graduateinstitute.ch https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/discover-institute/nina-kiderlin
SDGs:
All SDGs
Topics:
Monitoring & review processes | Multilateral Governance | Financing the SDGs
Events:
Nature’s contribution to the 2030 Agenda | From Science To Practice: Research And Knowledge To Achieve The SDGs | State (and) Power in the Pandemic | Programming world politics? The ‘appfication’ of global governance
News:
Coronavirus: Information for our community and visitors | From Science To Practice: Research And Knowledge To Achieve The SDGs | The Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS) Launch Statement | NRP73 “Financing Investments in Clean Technologies” Third Partners Meeting | How can we structure digital spaces more democratically?
Publications:
SDGs, health and the G20 a vision for public policy
External Initiatives:
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Felix Kirchmeier

Felix Kirchmeier

Researcher
felix.kirchmeier@graduateinstitute.ch
SDGs:
1238
Topics:
Overall Agenda 2030 & the SDGs
Events:
Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
Kazushige Kobayashi

Kazushige Kobayashi

Research Assistant, PhD Candidate
Political Science / International Relations
kazushige.kobayashi@graduateinstitute.ch https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/faculty/kazushige-kobayashi
SDGs:
168
Topics:
Monitoring & review processes | Financing the SDGs
Research:
Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development: Monitoring in Switzerland | Employment and Decent Work in Fragile Settings | The Operational Experience of Business Environment Reform Programming in Fragility and Conflict-Affected Countries
Austin Liu

Austin Liu

Research Assistant, Master Student
International Development, Political Science / International Relations
austin.liu@graduateinstitute.ch http://graduateinstitute.ch/home/research/centresandprogrammes/globalhealth/about-us/people/project-and-research-staff.html/_/people/staff/centres-prog/ghc/liu
SDGs:
3
Research:
What Defines Global Health Leadership in the 21st Century? | What Defines Global Health Leadership in the 21st Century?
Christine Lutringer

Christine Lutringer

Researcher
Political Science / International Relations, International History
christine.lutringer@graduateinstitute.ch https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/faculty/christine-lutringer
SDGs:
All SDGs
Topics:
Monitoring & review processes | Overall Agenda 2030 & the SDGs
Events:
Implementation as ‘a Long Voyage of Discovery’: Rethinking Strategies for Building State Capability | Moving Frontiers of the Demos: Enfranchisement, Youth Participation, and Digital Technologies
News:
‘There Was A Third Man…’: Tales from a Global Policy Consultation on Indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals | What is the point of the rule of law? | Transnational and local democracy | State–Society Relationships during the COVID-19 Crisis | Redesigning Political Participation for a Social Generation | Renewing Local Democracy through and with Youth | Une gouvernance mondiale de l’IA est-elle possible et si oui, peut-on y intégrer la jeunesse?
Research:
The Puzzle of Unspent Funds: The Institutional Architecture of Unaccountable Governance | Democratising access to healthcare: Infertility, childlessness, and treatment seeking in resource-poor settings in Nepal and India
Esther May

Esther May

Research Assistant, Master Student
International Development
esther.may@graduateinstitute.ch
SDGs:
All SDGs
Topics:
Overall Agenda 2030 & the SDGs | Engagement with business & non-state actors | Multilateral Governance | Financing the SDGs | Monitoring & review processes
Events:
What Does the New Development Agenda Mean for Women and Girls? | Introducing the Graduate Institute’s SDG Portal
News:
SDG Portal – Enabling collaboration on the 2030 Agenda
Research:
Multinational corporations as partners for SDG implementation: evolution from ‘doing no harm’ to ‘doing good’ | Private Sector Contribution to SDG 16 Implementation & Peacebuilding in Fragile States
External Initiatives:
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Rahul Mehrotra

Rahul Mehrotra

Researcher
International Economics, International Development
rahul.mehrotra@graduateinstitute.ch https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/faculty/rahul-mehrotra
SDGs:
101617
Targets:
16.4
Topics:
Financing the SDGs
Events:
Book Launch: States, Markets, and Foreign Aid
Research:
Curbing Illicit Financial Flows from Resource-rich Developing Countries: Improving Natural Resource Governance to Finance SDGs
Lee Mizell

Lee Mizell

Researcher
International Development
lee.mizell@graduateinstitute.ch
SDGs:
All SDGs
Topics:
Overall Agenda 2030 & the SDGs | Engagement with business & non-state actors | Monitoring & review processes
Events:
Measuring and monitoring implementation of the SDGs: Fit for purpose? | Pathways to Transformation – Research Fair on the Agenda 2030
Publications:
International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement
Nathalie Monnet

Nathalie Monnet

Research Assistant, PhD Student
International Economics
nathalie.monnet@graduateinstitute.ch
SDGs:
16
Topics:
Regional--national & local policies
Research:
The Economics of Conflict