Prof. Marco Sassòli

Marco Sassòli, a national of Switzerland and Italy, is professor and director of the Department of international law and international organisation of the University of Geneva. From 2001-03, Marco Sassòli was Professor of International Law at the University of Québec in Montréal, where he remains Associate Professor.

He chairs the Board of Geneva Call, an NGO which engages with armed non-State actors to adhere to humanitarian norms. He is also Vice-Chair of the Board of the International Council of Human Rights Policy.  He graduated with a Doctor of Laws from the University of Basel (Switzerland) and is member of the Swiss Bar. He worked from 1985-1997 for the International Committee of the Red Cross, at its headquarters in Geneva, inter alia as deputy head of its legal division, and in the field, inter alia as head of delegation in Jordan and Syria and as protection coordinator for the former Yugoslavia. He has also served as Executive Secretary of the International Commission of Jurists and as Registrar at the Swiss Supreme Court.