Lola Wilhelm, PhD
- Senior Research Associate
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Since February 2025: Visiting Professor Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Since September 2024: Senior Researcher and Lecturer in the History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich (Prof. Dr. Flurin Condrau)
2020-2024: Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Ethics, History and the Humanities Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva
2020: PhD in International History, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
2019-2020: Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow European at the University Institute, Florence
2018-2019: Swiss National Science Foundation Doc.mobility Fellow, Global History of Capitalism Project, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
2015-2018: Teaching Assistant at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
2013-2015: Senior Ebola Analyst (Guinea-based) and Humanitarian Information Analyst, Assessment Capacities Project (/Norwegian Refugee Council), Geneva
2011-2012: Humanitarian Project Coordinator, France Volontaires, Ivry-sur-Seine
2011: Master’s Degree in History and Development Studies Sorbonne Université, Paris
2009: Bachelor’s Degree in History and English Université Paris Cité, Paris
History of Multinational Enterprises, Global Health, History of Development, History of Pharmaceuticals, Environmental History
Monograph
Formulating development: How Nestlé shaped the aid industry, Manchester University Press, 2025 (out July 2025).
Book Chapters
“Tchernobâle reappraised: Technological risk in Europe’s post-Stockholm environmental politics”, in Bott S., Pitteloud S., Schaufelbuehl J. (eds), Business actors, capitalism, and environmental regulation. From Stockholm 1972 to today’s climate crisis, Routledge, 2025 (forthcoming).
“Local Histories of International Food Aid: The World Food Programme in the Middle East in the 1960s”, in Dmitriev, Hauser, Orfali (eds), Insatiable Appetite: Food as a Cultural Signifier, Brill, 2020.
“Milieux associatifs français et politiques de coopération de l'entre-deux-guerres à l'aube postcoloniale”, in François Pacquement (ed.), 75 ans au service du développement, Agence française de développement, 2017.
Articles
“Business et santé infantile mondiale. La stratégie médicale de Nestlé au sein des réseaux pédiatriques et humanitaires transnationaux”, Monde(s), 20(2), 49-66, 2021.
“‘One of the Most Urgent Problems to Solve’: Malnutrition, Trans-Imperial Nutrition Science, and Nestlé's Medical Pursuits in Late Colonial Africa”, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 48(5), 914-933, 2020.
“Nestlé’s Corporate Reputation and the Long History of Infant Formula”, The Global History of Capitalism Case Studies Series, University of Oxford, 2019.
“International Organisations and the Evolution of Humanitarianism: Cross-perspectives on the Commonwealth and the European Union”, The Round Table, 104(4), 2015.
Book Reviews
“Les multinationales dans l’arène politique, S. Pitteloud”, Business History Review, 96(4), 912-915, 2022.
Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, European University Institute, 2019
Junior Fellowship, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, 2019
Doc.Mobility Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2018
Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2015
Cambridge European Scholarship, Cambridge Trust, 2014
Erasmus Scholarship, 2008
Les Expertes de l’UNIGE
Fondation Pierre du Bois pour l’Histoire du Temps Présent
History of International Organizations Network