Curt Gasteyger
Dr. Curt Gasteyger is the Director of the Association for the Promotion and Study of International Security, and Honorary Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. He was the Professor for International Relations at the HEI from 1974 to 1994. He was also the founder and director of the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies.
Gasteyger participated in the Volcker Commission, established to investigate the many dormant accounts opened by Jews fleeing Nazi persecution in Swiss Banks.
In 2003, he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
In 2005, the HEI created the Gasteyger Chair in International Security and Conflict Studies in Gasteyger's honour, after a large donation from APESI. The first professor to hold the chair was Thomas J. Biersteker.
