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Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan

Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan

Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan was appointed in 2025 as a Vice-Chair of the newly established Steering Committee of the AI for Good Impact Initiative. For the Institute for Global Negotiation, he leads the “Global Negotiation Support” initiative offering advisory roles to Chairs, Facilitators, negotiation bodies of UN and other multilateral processes. His expertise in negotiation and global issues also draws from his experience as a diplomat and negotiator for the European Union in the United Nations and more recently as Deputy Secretary-General of the International Organization of Employers.

As an EU diplomat, Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan led negotiations on Business and Human Rights and a range of other global issues. He was also called to support negotiation teams in other fora such as the World Health Assembly and the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems. Mindful of the power of collective action, he has been involved in several multi-stakeholder initiatives: he represented the EU in the Steering Committee of the Mega-Sporting Events Platform and in the Group of Friends of the co-Chairs (Switzerland, ICRC) of the Montreux Document Forum on the Governance of Private Military and Security Companies.

Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan also served as Director of the International Negotiation and Policy-Making Program at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. He has also been called by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) to design and lead negotiation trainings and by the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie in joint workshops for climate, digital and trade negotiators. The OIF mandated him to co-author a handbook: Ligne du temps de la négociation. Prior to Geneva, Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan was posted with the European Commission in Cairo and Jerusalem.

He is regularly invited as speaker/moderator in regional and global events e.g. due to dialogue with former European Commissioner Thierry Breton at the AI ON US Summit on responsible AI in Biarritz (France) on 15-16 October 2025. He holds a Ph.D in Political Science of Sciences Po. Paris and sits on the Board of Directors of Sciences Po. Grenoble. He co-authored a book and has also published in academic journals and mainstream media. Among others, following his visit to New York for the Summit of the Future and the adoption of the Pact for the Future, including the Global Digital Compact, he published an opinion piece for SwissInfo: The United Nations Pact for the Future: From Negotiation to Action?

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