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Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME)

Lola Wilhelm, PhD

  • Senior Research Associate

Short CV

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

Research Interests

History of Multinational Enterprises, Global Health, History of Development, History of Pharmaceuticals, Environmental History

Publications (Selection)

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.

Grants

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

Professional Affiliations

Les Expertes de l’UNIGE

Fondation Pierre du Bois pour l’Histoire du Temps Présent

History of International Organizations Network