Marie-Laure Salles is New IHEID Director

(Graduate Institute, September 01, 2020)

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) recently welcomed Marie-Laure Salles as the first woman to direct the Institute since its creation in 1927. She succeeds Philippe Burrin, who directed the Institute for 16 years. Marie-Laure earned her PhD in Sociology from Harvard University and her accreditation to supervise research from Dauphine University in Paris. Her work explores, from a historical and comparative perspective: the evolution of governance and capitalism; questions of business ethics and social responsibility; the role of networks in the diffusion of norms, practices and ideas; and the dynamics of governance, particularly transnational, in economic activities. Marie-Laure Salles was previously the Dean of the School of Management and Innovation at Sciences Po Paris, a school that she helped to found.