New Fellow: Lucile Maertens

26 August 2025

Lucile Maertens is Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute, former co-director of the Global Governance Centre and scientific collaborator at the University of Lausanne. Her current research focuses on international organizations, multilateral practices, global environmental governance and issues of temporality and (de)politicization. She is finalizing a three-year research project on agenda-keeping in times of crisis investigating how UN actors maintained political attention on the environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prof. Lucile Maertens is also co-investigator of a project that academically documents Switzerland’s first membership on the UN Security Council from 2023 to 2024 (funded by the Fondation pour l’Université de Lausanne). She recently co-authored Why International Organizations Hate Politics: Depoliticizing the World (2021) and co-edited International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction (2023). She has also published on pedagogy and role-play simulations.

For more about her work, see her website.