Vincent Chetail is a legal scholar and professor of public international law specializing in international migration law and refugee law at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland. ^{[1] [2]} He is also a senior research associate at the University of London's Refugee Law Initiative. ^[3]

Chetail has held numerous visiting professorships, including at Harvard Law School, the University of Paris XI, Sciences Po, the Hague Academy of International Law and the European University Institute. ^[4] He has been called by his peers "a leading expert on migration" ^[5] and one of the "luminaries" of the discipline of international migration law. ^[6] He started his academic career as an associate professor of public international law at the Geneva campus of Webster University. ^[7]

Chetail holds a PhD from the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, a master's from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and a bachelor's in law from Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. ^{[1] [7]}

Chetail is emeritus editor-in-chief of the academic journal Refugee Survey Quarterly, published by Oxford University Press, and member of the Oxford Bibliographies in International Law's founding editorial board. ^{[8] [9]} He founded the Global Migration Centre, a research center at the Geneva Graduate Institute. ^[10] In 2019, Chetail became president of the board of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, succeeding Nicolas Michel. ^[11]

In 2020, the United Nations' International Organization for Migration appointed Chetail as an Migration Research and Publishing High-Level Advisers. ^{[12] [13]}

He is frequently cited in the media for his views on issues of forced migration in Europe and refugee law. ^{[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]}

• International Migration Law, (Oxford, Oxford University Press) (2019) 449p ^[21]
• Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: A Lexicon, (Oxford, Oxford University Press) (2019) 344p
• Unity and Diversity of International Law (Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) co-edited with D. Alland, O. de Frouville & Jorge E. Viñuales (2014) 1007p
• The Roots of International Law (Boston/Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) co-edited with Pierre-Marie Dupuy (2013) 764p
• Privatizing War: Private Military and Security Companies under Public International Law (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) co-authored with L. Cameron (2013) 720p