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Prof. Gian Luca Burci

Gian Luca Burci was named Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Institute of Geneva in 2012. His areas of expertise are public international law, the law of international organisations as well as global health governance and law. At the Graduate Institute he teaches international health law within the framework of the joint LLM in Global Health Law and International Institutions programme in partnership with Georgetown University, as well as a course on the law and practice of the United Nations. Among other professional achievements, he was closely involved in the negotiation and implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and its Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, the revision and implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005), WHO’s response to the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak and WHO reform. Prof. Burci is the co-author of the leading English book on WHO, editor of the first research collection on global health law and author of numerous articles and book chapters.