# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gilbert-rist
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:57:45.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gilbert-rist"
name: "Gilbert Rist"
slug: "gilbert-rist"
description: "Gilbert Rist was a Swiss professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and a thought leader of postdevelopment theory. He was best known for his study, The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith, which criticizes development and has been described as “to date, the most consequential and scholarly critique from the left of the development project”. Rist held a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies."
tagline: "Swiss educator (1938–2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CH"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-07-16"
deathDate: "2023-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump