Richard Baldwin of the University of Geneva and Paul Krugman of Princeton challenge this assumption.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

Tough talk from a soft-spoken graduate of the University of Geneva's diplomacy school who later got an M.

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Mr Akkari is Associate Professor of International Education at the University of Geneva.

UNESCO: Quality in educational policy: Research and foresight

He was a student at the University of Geneva, graduating in 1966.

ECONOMIST: Rudiger Dornbusch

Marilyn and Bogie are computer-generated likenesses created by Nadia and Daniel Thalmann, computer graphics professors working at the University of Geneva and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, respectively.

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Among other things, he is currently Legal Adviser UNESCO, he has been a professor of International Law at the University of Geneva and founder and editor of the African Yearbook on International Law.

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D. at the University of Geneva.

WSJ: Philanthropist Who Backed International Studies

While probing the brain of a woman who suffered from epilepsy, Olaf Blanke and his colleagues at the University Hospital of Geneva found that stimulating the right angular gyrus (a point about an inch above and slightly behind the right ear, and just inside the skull) caused her to feel that she was travelling out of her own body.

ECONOMIST: Out-of-body experiences

In an accompanying editorial, Dr Martin Tramer, of Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland, argues that it is unclear who should be given what dose of aspirin and for how long.

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