Eva Maria Belser

Eva Maria Belser holds a Chair in Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Fribourg (since 2008) and a UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Democracy (since 2014). She teaches and researches in the fields of Swiss and comparative constitutional law, federalism, decentralisation and globalisation, human and minority rights, democracy as well as development cooperation, constitution-making, and conflict resolution. She is co-director of the Institute for Federalism, heads its international centre and regularly accepts mandates as a Swiss expert in international cooperation and consulting projects. She was honoured with the 2019 Federalism Prize for her achievements in the field of comparative federalism. She is currently President of the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies (IACFS), Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law Fribourg and on the Advisory Board of International IDEA.