Grégoire Mallard is a Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He obtained his PhD from Princeton University in 2008. Following his doctoral studies, he served as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University before joining the Geneva Graduate Institute. Mallard is the author of notable works such as 'Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture' published by the University of Chicago Press in 2014, and 'Gift Exchange: A Transnational History of a Political Idea' published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. He led an ERC project from 2017 to 2022 titled 'Bombs, Banks and Sanctions', which explored the evolution of unilateral sanctions in the global context of the Iran nuclear negotiations. Additionally, he co-edited 'Contractual Knowledge: A Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets' (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and 'Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science' (Routledge, 2008). His research interests include the prediction role of knowledge and ignorance in transnational lawmaking and the study of social processes underlying harmonization.