The Team

Anne Saab
Aliki Semertzi
Portia Karageya
Portia Karegeya

Principal Investigator

Anne Saab

Anne Saab joined the Graduate Institute as an Assistant Professor in International Law in 2015. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021 and has been serving as Co-Director of the LL.M. in International Law programme since 2018. Anne obtained a PhD in International Law from the London School of Economics in 2015, an LL.M. from King’s College London in 2009, and an LLB from Leiden University in 2008. Her areas of interest and expertise include food and agriculture, climate change, intellectual property law and more recently, emotions and international law. Her first monograph entitled, Narratives of Hunger in International Law: Feeding the World in Times of Climate Change, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. Prior to entering academia, Anne worked as a legal advisor and policy officer at the Ministry of Agriculture and Economic Affairs and at the Foreign Office in The Hague.

Postdoctoral researcher

Aliki Semertzi

Aliki Semertzi is an international legal scholar, inquiring into law as a mode of thinking, into the process of legal reasoning as a technique of engaging with the world. Aliki is the Postdoctoral Researcher at the SNF project on ‘Emotions and International Law’, analyzing the role of emotions in the use of artificial intelligence in warfare. She holds a PhD and a Master in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute (2022, 2016), and an LLM from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels in 2011. Her research interests and areas of expertise include legal theory and comparative law, international economic law and economic theories, laws of war and international humanitarian law, and most recently, new technologies, history of science and the role of emotions in automation, decision-making, and human-machine interaction. Prior to rejoining the Graduate Institute, Aliki was a Residential Fellow at the Institute for Global Law & Policy at the Harvard Law School (2021-2023). During her doctoral studies she also served as a Teaching Assistant at the International Law department of the Graduate Institute (2017-2020). Before entering academia, she worked as a legal advisor at the European Commission of the EU in Brussels, DG Trade.

PhD Researcher
Portia Karageya

Portia Karegeya

Portia Mbabazi Karegeya joined the Geneva Graduate Institute in September 2023 to pursue a PhD in Emotions and International Law. Her work is focused on shame and stigma in relation to infectious disease and the role of global health law and governance in shaping and maintaining conditions of inequity.  Portia obtained her LLB at the University of Cape Town, and holds two LLMs from McGill University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she was a Sonke Health and Human Rights Fellow. Prior to reentering academia, Portia also worked as a Judicial Law Clerk at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, as a contractor on legal and policy matters under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety with the UN Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), and as a Legal Officer for The Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) based in Halifax, Canada conducting legal research and human rights advocacy with respect to freedom of expression and access to information. She is also a member of the New York State Bar.

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