Johan Sauser has been a doctoral assistant at the Global Studies Institute (GSI) at the University of Geneva since 2024. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a Master’s degree in European Studies.

He is a teaching assistant on Switzerland’s foreign policy course and is in charge of the international relations seminar on EU policies. His thesis project looks at the EU’s regulatory dynamics through the prism of computer science and complex systems.

Johan was co-coordinator of the Geneva regional group between July 2022 and July 2024. Johan has a particular interest in the cross-cutting themes of mobility and European integration, on which he has organised several events with foraus. He took part in drafting the Project Brief ‘Protecting the world from future pandemics’ and the foraus Foreign Policy Briefings for the 2023 election year.