Alexis Keller is a professor of Political Sciences at the University of Geneva. He is a former fellow of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
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Alexis Keller is a professor of Political Sciences at the University of Geneva. After studying at the Universities of Geneva and Cambridge, Dr. Keller taught political and legal theory in several European universities from 1996 to 2002.
He has written various books and articles on European intellectual history, legal history and legal theory.
He is a former fellow of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Dr. Keller is a senior fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation and a board member of several international think tanks and various academic organizations.
For his role in initiating and promoting [1] the Geneva Accord also known as the Geneva Initiative , he was awarded the Condorcet-Raymond Aron Prize (2004) and the Sean MacBride Peace Prize (2004).
The Accord was officially launched on December 1, 2003 at a ceremony in Geneva. Amongst its creators are Israeli politician Yossi Beilin, one of the architects of the Oslo accords, and former Palestinian Authority minister Yasser Abed Rabbo.
Alexis Keller lives in Geneva Switzerland and is married with four kids. His wife is of Lebanese descent and according to Yossi Beilin in his book the Path to Geneva [2] is partly of Jewish ancestry. Politically, Alexis Keller is involved in the liberal Party.