Dr. Myriam Piguet has been recently awarded the Lombard Odier Prize by the Swiss Forum for International Affairs for her doctoral thesis entitled “Gender Before Mainstreaming: The Integration of Women to International Civil Service in the Secretariats of the League of Nations and the United Nations, circa 1920-1975″. Dr. Piguet is an historian of international organisation and a newly arrived postdoctoral researcher in the C²DH’s EHI team. She completed her PhD in Geneva, under the supervision of the Profs. Sandrine Kott and Monika Baar. The Lombard Audier’s doctoral price recognizes the innovative aspect of Dr. Piguet’s PhD thesis, and its ties with the current challenges faced by multilateralism and the role of the city of Geneva (Switzerland) within it.
The award ceremony was followed by a round table on the current challenges for greater women’s integration in multilateralism (in French) . The recording of the round table is available online.