Roy Gava PhD Department of Political Science and International Relations Bd du Pont d Arve 40 1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland +41 (22) 379 83 78 roy.gava@unige.ch www.roygava.com Swiss Argentinian Current positions Lecturer (Maître Assistant) since 08.2014 Post-doctoral Researcher since 08.2015 SNF Project "Re-Parliamentarization? A Quantitative Assessment of the Swiss Parliament s legislative function". PI: Pascal Sciarini CAS Financial Regulation - Universities of Bern and Geneva Program Coordinator since 01.2016 Previous positions University of Lausanne Research Fellow 09.2014 12.2014 Design and management of a database on interest groups. Supervisor: André Mach. Academic Swiss Caucasus Net Consultant 12.2012 12.2014 Teaching and Research Assistant 09.2007 08.2014 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Visiting Scholar 09.2011 06.2012 SNF Fellowship for Prospective Researchers. Supervisor: Frank Baumgartner. Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis Teaching Assistant 07.2007, 07.2008, 07.2009 International Labour Organization Research Assistant 06.2005-09.2005 Internship at the International Institute for Labour Studies. Supervisor: Lucio Baccaro. Education PhD in economic and social sciences, specialization in political science 07.2009 01.2014 Trusting Bankers: Continuity and Change in Swiss Banking Policy. Committee: Pascal Sciarini (co-supervisor), Frédéric Varone (co-supervisor), Frank Baumgartner, Simon Hug (chair), Luc Thévenoz Master of Arts in political science 09.2007 09.2008 Licence ès science politique 10.2003 07.2007 University of Helsinki Erasmus exchange, focus on European studies 09.2006 12.2006 1/5
Colegio Ward, Buenos Aires High School Diploma 03.1999 12.2001 Additional training FORS Swiss Summer School in Social Science Methods 08.2015 University of Michigan Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research 06.2010 07.2010 University of Washington Tools for Text Workshop 06.2010 University of Oxford Oxford Spring School in Quantitative Methods for Social Research 03.2010 03.2010 University of Essex Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis 07.2007, 07.2008, 07.2009 London School of Economics Summer Course on Foreign Policy Analysis 07.2006 08.2006 Publications See separate list of publications and work in progress. Teaching Teaching responsibilities include the development of a self-designed and independently run course or seminar and the supervision of the students work. Teaching evaluations available upon request. Bachelor (in French) Comparative Politics (20-25 students, autumn 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010). Introduction to Research Methods (30-40 students, spring 2008, 2013). Introduction to Political Science (20 students, autumn 2012). Qualitative Methods (5 students, autumn 2014). Policy-making and interest groups in Switzerland (15 students, autumn 2015). Business and policy (15-25 students, autumn 2016, 2017). Supervision of BA dissertations in International Relations. Master Comparative Public Policy (in French, 25 students, spring 2013). Global Financial Governance (in English, 25-35 students, autumn 2014, 2015, 2016). Data Tools for Political and Policy Analysis (in English, 5 students, autumn 2017). Supervision of MA dissertations in Political Science and Public Management. Doctoral and post-doctoral training (in English) Getting Data from the Web: Tools and techniques for Automating data collection (CUSO seminar with Bruno Wüest, 20 participants, Geneva, autumn 2015). Qualitative Data Analysis and Management (doctoral and post-doctoral training with Lea Sgier, 15-25 participants, Tbilisi, autumn 2015 and Belgrade, spring 2016). 2/5
Languages Spanish: Native English: Fluent French: Fluent German: Beginner Computer skills Programming languages: R, SQL Databases: Design and Administration with MySQL, Filemaker Pro/Server Data visualization: Shiny, Tableau Qualitative Data Analysis: Atlas.ti, MaxQDA Conference presentations and invited talks Global Enforcement of Financial Regulation (with Urs Zulauf). Presentation at the Centre of Banking and Financial Law, Geneva, 21 February 2018. Legislating or rubber-stamping? The impact of Parliament on law-making (with Julien Jaquet and Pascal Sciarini). Paper presentation at the 10th CAP Conference, Edinburgh, 15-17 June 2017 and ad the SPSA Conference, Geneva, 5-6 February 2018. Money Laundering: Current trends, issues and challenges (with Ursula Cassani). Presentation at the Protecting public interests module, CAS Financial Regulation, Geneva, 6-7 October 2017. Crisis? What Crisis? Interest Groups and policy processes in financial regulation. Paper presentation at the International Conference on Public Policy, Singapore, 28-30 June 2017 and at the ECPR General Conference, Oslo, 6-9 September 2017. Evidence-Based Policy-making: Interest Groups as Catalysts or Inhibitors? (with Frédéric Varone and Pirmin Bundi). Paper presentation at the SPSA Conference, St. Gallen, 11-12 January 2017. Financial regulatory debates during the Global Financial Crisis (with Oriol Sabaté and Laura Morales). Paper presentation at the 9th CAP Conference, Geneva, June, 2016 and at the American Political Science Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, September 1-4, 2016. The enemy within? Business unity and Swiss financial regulatory politics (with Frédéric Varone). Paper presentation at the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, Tilburg, 6-8 July 2016. Mobilisation des groupes d intérêt lors des procédures de consultation (with Julien Christe and Frédéric Varone). Paper presentation at the SPSA Conference, Basel, 21-22 January 2016. Interest groups in Switzerland. Presentation at the Counting and Classifying Interest Groups Workshop, Amsterdam, 23 October 2015. Who Europeanizes parliamentary attention, on which issues and how? A Policy agenda perspective (with Pascal Sciarini and Frédéric Varone). Paper presentation at the 8th CAP Conference, Lisbon, 22-24 June 2014. Interest groups in Parliament: Exploring MPs interest affiliations (With Frédéric Varone, André Mach, Steven Eichenberger, Julien Christe and Corinne Ciao-Blanco). Paper presentation at the 6th CAP Conference, Lisbon, 22-24 June 2014. 3/5
Real world conditions and the agenda-setting impact of protest: A comparative analysis (with Marco Giugni, Frédéric Varone, Stefaan Walgrave, Rens Vliegenthart, Ruud Wouters and Swen Hutter). Paper presentation at the 7th CAP Conference, Konstanz, 12-14 June 2014. Trusting Bankers: Continuity and Change in Swiss Banking Policy. PhD presentation at the SPSA Conference, Bern, 30-31 January 2014. The Europeanization of Swiss legislation. Workshop participation at the ECPR Research Sessions, Florence, 19-22 June 2012. Political Attention and Policy Dynamics: Swiss Banks between Private and Public Regulation. Paper presentation at the 5th CAP Conference, Reims, 14-16 June 2012 and at the 22nd IPSA World Congress, Madrid, 8-12 July 2012. Changements d instruments et contentieux judiciaire: le cas de l assurance-invalidité en Suisse (1990-2010) (with Karin Byland and Frédéric Varone). Paper presentation at the SPSA Conference, Luzern, 2-3 February 2012. Policy dynamics at the ballot: Direct democracy, voting campaigns and policy change (with Alessandro Nai and Frédéric Varone). Paper presentation at the 4th CAP Conference, Catania, 23-25 June 2011. Trusting Bankers: Policy Dynamics of Anti-Money Laundering Regulation in Switzerland. Paper presentation at the Staff meeting of the Department of Political Science,, 18 April 2011. Agenda-Setting and Social Movements (with Marco Giugni and Frédéric Varone). Paper presentation at the ECPR Joint Sessions, St. Gallen, 12-17 April 2011. Politics between external and domestic pressures: Issue dynamics and policy change in the Swiss Banking sector. Paper presentation at the 69th Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, 31 March-April 3 2011. The Delors Myth revisited: The EU footprint in Swiss Legislative Production. Presentation at the European Communities Studies Association Switzerland Conference, Geneva, 27 March 2010. The Dynamics of Swiss Banking Regulation. Paper presentation at the 3rd CAP Conference, Seattle, June 17 2010 and at the CUSO Doctoral Programme in Political Science, Vevey, 20 November 2010. Breaking the rules, setting the agenda, but missing the target: The Rise of the Swiss People s Party (with Frédéric Varone, Pascal Sciarini and Isabelle Engeli). Paper presentation at the 3rd CAP Conference, Seattle, 17 June 2010. So Close, yet so far? The EU footprint in Swiss Legislative Acts (with Frédéric Varone). Paper presentation at the 4th "Delors Myth" workshop, Mannheim, May 2010. A previous version of this paper was presented at the 3rd "Delors Myth" workshop, Barcelona, 22 January 2010 and at the Staff meeting of the Department of Political Science,, 2 December 2009. The Politics of Swiss Banking Policy. Paper presentation at the 2nd CAP Conference, The Hague, 19 June 2009. 4/5
University service Member of the University Assembly since 09.2017 Member of the scientific committee of the BA in political science since 02.2016 Member of the Faculty of social sciences Council 07.2015 08.2017 Last update on February 16, 2018. 5/5