Nicolas Imboden, a Swiss national, holds a degree in law from the University of Geneva, a degree in development studies from the then African Development Institute, and an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston.  He was also an AMP student at Harvard.
Mr. Imboden is a partner and cofounder of the IDEAS Centre in Geneva. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of SGS (1999-2002), a Swiss Government trade and aid official with the rank of an ambassador (1992-1999), Governor of the regional development banks (ADB, AFDB, IDB) and Executive Director at the EBRD (1992). He was the Swiss negotiator for market access and agriculture during the Uruguay Round negotiations (1987-1992). He also worked in the World Bank as an agricultural economist (1978-1982), in the OECD as a researcher on aid monitoring (1974-1978), and at the UNDP as a Program Officer in Chad (1972-1974).
Mr. Imboden has been a member of various Expert Groups of the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and of the UNDP Human Development Report.