Grégoire Mallard

PhD, Princeton University

Grégoire Mallard is Director of Research and Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. After earning his PhD at Princeton University in 2008, Pr. Mallard was Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University until he joined the Institute. He is the author of Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea (Cambridge University Press 2019). From 2017 until 2022, he has lead an ERC project titled Bombs, Banks and Sanctions, which focused on the evolution of unilateral sanctions in the global context of the Iran nuclear negotiations and global banking reforms, from which he created the Geneva Sanctions and Sustainable Peace Hub. He is also the co-editor of Contractual Knowledge: One Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets (Cambridge University Press 2016), and Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science (Routledge 2008). His other publications focus on prediction, the role of knowledge and ignorance in transnational lawmaking and the study of harmonization as a social process. In 2024, he has founded a new Center for digital humanities and multilateralism at the Institute with the goal of reviving the interest for the future of multilateralism through an innovative analysis of its past.

THEMATIC EXPERTISE
Ideas & politics
Nuclear treaties & security
Sanctions
Democracy & rule of law
European Union
Multilateral diplomacy, international negotiations
Foreign policies
Globalisation
NATO & other security alliances
Governance & multilateralism
 

GEOGRAPHICAL EXPERTISE
United States of America
European Union
France
Switzerland
Algeria
Egypt
Iran
Israël