DIPLOFOUNDATION - Key Persons
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- Associate Fellow, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
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- New Director of the US National Security Agency
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- Peace Technologist and AI Ethicist
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- Lecturer, Athabasca University and Royal University of Law and Economics
Alan Franklin obtained an LLB and JD from the University of Toronto and an LLM in international law from the London School of Economics. He is currently living on Vancouver Island, Canada, teaching courses on International Business Risk Management and Due Diligence to executive MBA students online at Athabasca University, International Organizations and International Dispute Settlement at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as well as courses on Consular Functions for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the UAE and also for Cambodia. Alan created and chairs an association of former United Nations Ambassadors in the USA.
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- Chief Information Officer
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- Professor Emeritus, Former Indian Ambassador, and a Joint Secretary to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
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- Ambassador
- Strategic Advisor to the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission
Ambassador Amr Aljowaily is an international civil servant, diplomat, academic, and writer with 32 years of professional experience. He is currently the strategic advisor to the deputy chairperson of the African Union Commission (Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement) in Addis Ababa.
As an academic, he is a visiting faculty member at the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Multilateral Diplomacy Program since 2014, and at DiploFoundation since 2007. He was previously a board member of the Institute for Diplomatic Studies (1994-1996) and the American University in Cairo (AU), including the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP).
As an Egyptian diplomat, his postings included Belgrade, New York, Geneva, and Washington, D.C. At the Foreign Ministry of Egypt, he served as deputy assistant to the foreign minister for United Nations Affairs, a member of the cabinets of the minister and first undersecretary, and at the departments of multilateral political and economic issues.
Aljowaily held leading positions in multilateral negotiations, and was a member of the Egyptian delegations to several summits and ministerial meetings of the UN, the African Union (AU), and the League of Arab States (LAS), including their specialised agencies, regional commissions, and subsidiary bodies. He was also the coordinator of International Relations at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (2001-2003).
As a writer, Aljowaily published some of the earliest analytical works in Arabic on ICTs and international relations, and continues to publish in the field of multilateral diplomacy, especially on issues related to international peace and security.
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- Internet Projects Manager at Yandex
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- Member of the Coordination Team
- Director of Education & Training
In addition to ensuring the smooth running of various courses and workshops, Andrej is actively involved in developing new methodologies for online and remote education. By working directly with students and lecturers, he works on developing online learning formats that will enhance the students' learning experience. Andrej also works on adapting Diplo's traditional onsite practice-based workshops to remote formats, focusing on effective and efficient online communication.
Andrej holds a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, and has obtained a postgraduate diploma in Diplomacy from the University of Malta with his dissertation Multilingualism and the Internet.
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- Editor - Digital Watch Head of Diplomatic & Policy Reporting
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- Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University
- Online Learning & Research Assistant
André Saramago is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Coimbra, in Coimbra, Portugal. His research focuses on the fields of international relations theory, international historical sociology, and East Asia studies. André has been collaborating with DiploFoundation in online learning and research since 2017. He holds an MA in International Relations (University of Lisbon, Portugal) and a PhD in International Politics (University of Aberystwyth, UK).
Ambassador Asoke Mukerji's diplomatic career spans 37 years, from 1978-2015. As India's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York (2013-2015) he oversaw India's negotiations on Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development, focusing on prioritising the use of technology for achieving the SDGs. He represented India in the inter-governmental negotiations that recommended a text-based outcome for UN Security Council Reforms in September 2015. He led India's successful initiative in the UN General Assembly in 2014 for adopting a resolution to declare 21 June every year as the International Day of Yoga.
Ambassador Mukerji was India's Delegate to the World Trade Organization in Geneva (1995-1998). He was Deputy High Commissioner of India in the UK (2007-2010); India's Ambassador to Kazakhstan (2005-2007); Deputy Chief of India's Mission in the Russian Federation (2001-2005); and India's first resident Charge d'affaires in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He headed India's largest consular post in Dubai (UAE) as Consul General from 1998-2001 and was India's last Consul General to Soviet Central Asia.
As Special Secretary in India's Ministry of External Affairs, he oversaw Indian foreign policy planning and review, India's policies in international organizations, and led Indian delegations participating in joint working groups on countering terrorism. He initiated India's first international cyber dialogues with the USA, the UK, the Russian Federation, Japan, and the EU. He worked as Chef de Cabinet of India's Minister of State for External Affairs (1993-95) and as Private Secretary to India's Minister of External Affairs (1985-86).
Ambassador Mukerji chaired a multi-stakeholder working group under India's National Security Council Secretariat to recommend cyber norms for India (2017-2018). He has addressed audiences at seminars and conferences in India and abroad, including the Global Conferences on Cyber Space at London (2011) and New Delhi (2017). He lectures regularly on multilateral issues to Indian and foreign diplomats at India's Foreign Service Institute.
Ambassador Mukerji has published articles and book chapters in Indian and foreign publications on India's foreign policy, as well as several books. He obtained a BA (Honours) and MA degree from St Stephen's College, University of Delhi. In July 2018, he was awarded a Doctor of Civil Law (honoris causa) degree by the University of East Anglia (UK) for his contributions to diplomacy.
Bojana Kovač is a researcher at Diplo, focusing on cybercrime and the Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime. She holds an LLM in Public International Law from Utrecht University, and an LLB in International and European Law from the Hague University of Applied Sciences.
Bojana completed her internships at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) at the Office of the Prosecutor in the Hague, and the Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD).
As a son of a Yugoslav diplomat, Boris Begović has been involved in numerous protocols and organisational activities within host countries and diplomatic cores. He obtained his law degree at the Union University in Belgrade. Boris has previously worked at a law office, and as a legal practitioner in the public administration of the City of Belgrade.
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- Senior Program Officer, Sub - Saharan Africa, International Budget Partnership
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- Administrative & Event Coordinator
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- Consultant
- Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Tel Aviv University
Daniel Beaudoin is a consultant on humanitarian diplomacy and civil-military affairs, as well as a lecturer on humanitarian diplomacy and aid operations at Tel Aviv University. Daniel has served as the Principal Liaison Officer for the coordination and facilitation of international humanitarian aid operations and economic development programs in the Occupied Territories. This position entailed intensive humanitarian mediation with the UN, World Bank, International Committee of the Red Cross, the US Agency for International Development, European Union, international NGOs as well as embassies and consulates. Daniel also has extensive media relations experience, having headed the foreign correspondents desk for the Israeli Military Spokesperson's office. His current research interests include network theory and its relevance to the humanitarian industry, as well as questions relating to the humanitarian diplomatic strategies adopted by the various aid actors, and how these strategies influence their ability to implement their respective humanitarian policies in the field.
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- Independent Senior Advisor in International Relations, Development Cooperation, and Capacity Development
Dr Albert Friggieri is Malta's ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein. In his previous position he served as Malta's ambassador to Germany for six and a half years (2013-2019) in Berlin. In the mid-1980s he had already headed the Maltese embassy in Germany, at that time in Bonn. He returned to Malta in 1988 to set up a manufacturing firm, the subsidiary of a German company operating world-wide, which he managed for 25 years. He was formerly involved in tourism management for seven years and served on various boards dealing with industry, trade, and investment promotion. For many years he was part-time lecturer and later Visiting Senior lecturer in the Department of German of the University of Malta. He was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit in 1999 "for fostering German-Maltese friendship through his work in the fields of culture, science and the economy". Dr Friggieri holds humanities degrees from the universities of Malta, Heidelberg (Germany) and Exeter (UK).
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- Representative
- Permanent Representative of Malta to the World Trade Organization
In his paper, Alex Sceberras Trigona stresses the importance of the diplomatic document as a primary source of diplomatic knowledge, in the light of the distinction between ‘information' (can be recorded) and know... 02 Aug, 2002
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- Capacity Development Consultant
- Freelance Consultant
Dr Anthony Land is a freelance consultant based in Botswana specialising in capacity development and change management. He works extensively in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region designing and evaluating programmes on decentralisation, public sector management, and governance. He has co-designed and applied various capacity diagnostic tools including the ‘5 Capabilities' tool amongst others, which have been used to design and monitor organisational/ institutional strengthening interventions. As a Programme Associate of the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) he has contributed to thinking on the theory and practice of capacity development in international cooperation. He was the founder of Capacity.Org, an online knowledge portal on capacity development, and has authored/co-edited various publications including Hauck, Land, Ubels, and Grein [eds] (2015) Capacity Development Beyond Aid (SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and ECDPM); and Land, Hauck, and Baser (2009) Capacity Development: Between Planned Interventions and Emergent Processes - Implications for Development Cooperation (ECDPM Policy Management Brief No. 22).
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- Research Consultant
- Director at ICANN
Dr Avri Doria is a research consultant. She served on the UN Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC) and the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). She served as a member the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Secretariat and is a member of the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF MAG). As a technologist she has been involved in the development of Internet protocols and architectures for over 30 years; is co-chair of a Research Group on Human Rights Protocol Considerations; and a member of the Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG). She has been active in ICANN policy, was chair of the GNSO Council, and is one of the co-chairs of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Working Group. She was recently re-elected chair of the Internet Society Chapters Advisory Council Steering Committee. Avri was awarded the ICANN Multistakeholder Ethos award in 2014.
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- Associate of the China Centre, University of Oxford
Dr Biljana Scott was trained as a linguist (BA in Chinese, M.Phil and D.Phil in Linguistics, University of Oxford). She is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Diplomacy at DiploFoundation and an associate of the Chinese Institute at Oxford University. She workshops internationally on political rhetoric, diplomatic language public speaking. Her current research is on implicit communication and the ‘unsaid'.
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- Chairman of the Policy Pillar
- Executive Vice President, Global Government Affairs, Salesforce
Eric Loeb is responsible for leading Salesforce's government relations, public policy, and public affairs efforts. The global team he supports is the face of Salesforce, and includes policymakers, policy influencers, diplomats, and civil society. Salesforce is a cloud computing company, covering customer relationship management and other enterprise-focused software for businesses, governments, and other organisations around the world.
Before joining Salesforce in 2018, he was AT&T's International External Affairs senior vice president, global regulatory counsel for Concert Communications plc, and U.S. regulatory counsel for British Telecommunications plc. Through these roles, he has fostered extensive experience with the policies and politics of governments across the globe.
As chair of the Policy Pillar, Eric serves as a leader on Salesforce's Racial Equality & Justice Task Force. He is also the executive sponsor of WINDforce, an employee equality group representing a Worldwide Indigenous Network of Diversity. In the community, Eric is the United States Council of International Business' chair of the board, an advisory board member of the SEED School of Maryland, and an advisory board member of the Asia Society-Northern California Chapter. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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- Czech - Romani Education Specialist
Gabriela Hrabanova - Czech-Romani education specialist with one foot in each wor
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- Emeritus Professor of International Politics, University of Leicester
Professor G.R. Berridge is Emeritus Professor of International Politics at the University of Leicester, where he was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Diplomacy. For many years, he was General Editor of the Macmillan series, Studies in Diplomacy, and Associate Editor (with responsibility for twentieth century diplomatists) of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is the author of numerous books on diplomacy, including the best-selling textbook, Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, which has been translated into numerous languages, including Chinese. His most recent books include Embassies in Armed Conflict, the third edition (with L. Lloyd) of The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Diplomacy, and A Diplomatic Whistleblower in the Victorian Era. Professor Berridge has been an external examiner at various British universities, including Birmingham, Durham, and London (School of Oriental and African Studies).
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- Ambassador of Maldives to Japan
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- Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Malta
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- Capacity Development Consultant
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Coordination Team
- Director of Diplo Foundation
Jovan Kurbalija, Director of Diplo Foundation spoke at a Joint Australian-Egyptian Missions Informal Roundtable information and cyber security (Friday, 1 June 2012; from 10.00 to 11.30) at the Egyptian Mission to the ...
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- Head of Knowledge Ecology
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- Director of Research
- Member of the Coordination Team
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- Administrator, Bioethics Unit, Council of Europe
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- Senior Fellow for Science and Technology Diplomacy
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- Guest Lecturer Executive Director, Datasphere Initiative
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- External Relations & Partnerships Manager
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- Science Diplomacy Expert and Founder
- Senior Science Diplomacy Advisor, Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator
Marga Gual Soler is a science diplomacy expert and founder of SciDipGLOBAL, a purpose-driven advisory, consulting, research, and training firm dedicated to building bridges between science, technology, and global policy. She is a senior advisor to the Geneva Science Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), founding member of the EU Science Diplomacy Alliance, and visiting professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Previously, she served as a high-level advisor to former EU commissioner for Research & Innovation Carlos Moedas, and member of the S4D4C Horizon 2020 project. As senior project director at the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy, she built a global education and training programme in science diplomacy, and was instrumental to re-establishing scientific ties between the United States and Cuba following diplomatic normalisation.
Marga has been recognised as a Georgetown University Global Competitiveness Leadership fellow, an Aspen Ideas scholar, an expert among the ‘Top 100 Spanish Experts in Innovation', HuffPost's '40 Under 40 Latinos in Foreign Policy', and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Biology from the University of Barcelona (Spain) and a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology from the University of Queensland (Australia). In 2019, Marga participated in the largest-ever women in STEM expedition to Antarctica to elevate women's leadership in global sustainability and climate action
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- Head of Digital Commerce & Internet Policy
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- Professor, Consultant and Trainer in Digital Marketing, Strategy & Visual Storytelling
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- Deputy Director - General, Department of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa
Ambassador Maud Vuyelwa Dlomo was appointed as South Africa's ambassador to Madagascar in 2016. Prior to this position, she was appointed as Deputy Director-General, Diplomatic Training, Research and Development at South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) in August 2008.
Among her qualifications are Master's degrees in Arts and Diplomatic Studies from Wits University and the University of Pretoria respectively. She also holds degrees in Arts and Development together with a post-graduate diploma in education development. She has served on a number of committees during her professional career, among other things as the assistant coordinator for the Defence Sub-Committee of the Transitional Executive Committee in 1994, and as assistant coordinator to the National Economic Development and Labour Council in 1995.
Prior to joining the DIRCO, Ms Dlomo was director: Forestry Restructuring in the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry; chief director: Human Resources Planning in the Department of Education; and chief director: Foreign Service Institute at the Department of Foreign Affairs.
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- Co - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Simon Institute for Longterm Governance
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- President, Hathaway Global Strategies and Lecturer, Introduction to Digital Policy and Diplomacy, New York
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- Science - Policy Officer, Geneva Science - Policy Interface
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- Executive Director, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva
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- Head of Operations - Belgrade Office & Creative Lab
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- Developer of Web & AI Applications
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- Front - End Web Developer
An expert in remote participation, Mr Arvin Kamberi heads up Diplo's Webinar Team. Based in Belgrade, he has been working on webinars and other web-based remote participation since 2011. Arvin has been part of the remote participation team for many international forums, such as the IGF, EuroDIG, and local IGF events such as IGF Africa. From 2014 to 2015, he was a part of the IGF Working Group on Remote Participation (established in 2008), and involved in the elaboration of IGF remote participation guidelines.
Arvin has a keen interest in cryptocurrency and blockchain developments; first as an avid ‘miner', then more in terms of regulation and consensus mechanisms surrounding the decentralised systems. His primary focus is on Bitcoin development, but he follows other cryptocurrency developments and the blockchain/distributed ledger technology, too. Vice President of Bitcoin Association of Serbia, Arvin writes extensively about Bitcoin and blockchains. He holds an MA in Film and Video Production from Belgrade University of Art.
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- Co - Editor
- Economist
- Executive Director, CUTS International
Mr Bipul Chatterjee is an Indian economist with more than 20 years of experience on issues related to international trade and development, especially on political economy of trade and economic policy reforms, particularly pro-poor aspects of reforms. Currently, he is Executive Director of CUTS International, a Jaipur-based international non-governmental organisation working on several subjects of public interest. Bipul heads the CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics and Environment. Prior to joining CUTS International, he worked at several economic policy think tanks in New Delhi such as National Council for Applied Economic Research, and Institute for Economic Growth. He has participated and represented the organisation in more than 100 events on WTO issues, regional integration, and trade and development issues at national, regional and international level including WTO Ministerial Conferences. He has authored more than 20 papers including a collection of essays on India's experience on economic diplomacy, co-edited with Ambassador Kishan Rana.
Kishan Rana is a widely published former Indian ambassador and Bipul Chatterjee, his co-editor, is the deputy executive director of the Indian NGO, and CUTS International is the the publisher of this book. Both editor...
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- Digital Transformation and Online Learning Specialist
Mr Dejan Dinčić is a digital transformation and online learning specialist based in Geneva. Formerly the technical director of DiploFoundation, he now teaches and provides strategic advice for Diplo. Since 2016 he has also worked as a consultant for international organisations, development NGOs, and UN agencies. He is a sought-after trainer and facilitator who brings topic knowledge, technical expertise, and effective training methodologies to events and workshops.
With a professional and academic background in online and remote distance education, and information technologies, Dejan has more than 20 years of experience in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, and in academia. His major research interests include digital transformation and knowledge management.
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- Communications Manager
- in 2019 As Communications Officer
Mr Dylan Farrell joined DiploFoundation in 2019 as communications officer. He holds a Bachelor in Communications (Honours) from the University of Malta, and a Master in the Science of Performative Creativity from the University of Malta and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland). Prior to joining Diplo, Dylan worked for six years as a journalist, and later as a newscaster and presenter, on Malta's top private TV station.
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- Director of Operations
- Finance
- Member of the Coordination Team
- Master / Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Diplomacy
Ms Anastasiya Kazakova is a cyber diplomacy knowledge fellow at DiploFoundation. Previously, she worked as senior public affairs manager at Kaspersky where she coordinated Kaspersky's international cyber diplomacy and global projects, as well as the Global Transparency Initiative, Kaspersky's programme to enhance transparency and accountability in cybersecurity.
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- Researcher - AI & Data Lab
- Researcher in Diplo 's AI
Ms Anja Đajić is a researcher in Diplo's AI and Data team. She holds a BA in Signals and Systems from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, and is currently enrolled as an MA student at the same department.
Anja is a big enthusiast in the field of artificial intelligence and data processing. In 2021, she participated in a research internship programme organised by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) where she worked on a project in the field of artificial intelligence and image processing.
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- Director of the ITU Regional Office for Africa
- Executive Director Government Affairs and Public Policy
As Executive Director Government Affairs and Public Policy, Ms Anne-Rachel Inné serves as the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)'s primary link to governments of US, Canada and 26 Caribbean economies. Immediately prior to working for ARIN, Anne-Rachel was ICANN's Vice President Government Engagement in Geneva, Switzerland. She also worked as the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the Africa Regional Registry, AFRINIC, taking care of operations and governments' engagement in the Registry's public policies process. Anne-Rachel worked at the IICD in The Hague, Netherlands (1998-2001) as several countries Programme Manager directing multi sector social development projects that were early adopters of ICT/Internet. She produced and publicised Learning by Doing: Lessons Emerging from the ICT Stories Projects for the benefit of the projects and the wider community. She was a member of the Bureau of the African Group at WSIS as a representative of the African Private Sector and a Member of the Gender Coalition during WSIS. Anne-Rachel was an entrepreneur and consultant in the ICT4D sector and a founding member of the African Enterprise Network (AEN) in 1997. Anne-Rachel is featured as ICT Expert in the ILO/IOM book for the AUC: African Women at the Service of the Union. She is the recipient of several awards for her demonstrated immense commitment and continued engagement with African communities. Anne-Rachel currently serves as the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Diplo US.
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- Deputy Director of Education & Training
Ms Dragana Markovski works on the planning, development, coordination, and quality control of Diplo courses and training programmes. She currently focuses on the delivery and further development of online communications training as part of Diplo's Future of Meetings project which provides capacity building and support to international organisations and various stakeholders as they transition from offline to online work.
Dragana has also worked on promotional activities for Diplo courses and projects, and assisted in the design and development of Diplo's learning management system (LMS).
Prior to joining Diplo in 2011, she worked as a translator and interpreter, as well as in office and PR management, international trade and logistics, and education.
She holds a BA in Chinese Language and Literature, and an MA in Chinese Literature from the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.
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- Refugee Support Service Manager, British Red Cross
UK-based Ms Morgan Mead has worked with the British Red Cross working within the Anti-Trafficking team, overseeing the RENEW project in the West Midlands, and managing the casework team within the Refugee Services Department in Scotland, supporting and advocating for asylum seekers experiencing destitution. Ms Mead also worked as the modern slavery coordinator for Birmingham City Council and she spent several years working in emergency response and pre-hospital care for both the Red Cross and other smaller NGOs, including time in Greece as part of search and rescue operations in the Aegean. With a BA in Anthropology with a focus on Human Rights, and a Diploma in Humanitarian Diplomacy, Morgan has worked with Diplo since 2015 as a research tutor, and as a course coordinator.
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- Internet Governance & E - Diplomacy Coordinator
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- African Initiative Coordinator
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- Executive Director, Geneva Science - Policy Interface
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- Science Educator and Communicator
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- Developer of Web & AI Applications
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- Guest Lecturer Executive Director, IT for Change
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- International Tech Policy Expert
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz dined with seven young Roma leaders on February 27, 2006, to get their views on efforts to empower the Roma, who are Europe's largest and poorest minority. The group included several particpants from the Roma Diplomacy programme: Gabriela Hrabanova, Erika Adamova, Beata Olahova and Gyula Vamosi.
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- Executive Director, Diplo US
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- Education Diplomacy Consultant, Association for Childhood Education International
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- Registrar, Northshore College, Sri Lanka
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- Chairman of the Advisory Board
Advisory Board Chair Prof. Andre Liebich has published an article on the Roma Diplomacy programme in the newsletter of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Professor Dietrich Kappeler served as Director of the Diplomatic Studies Programme of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva from 1993 to 1998. He was the founding director of the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Malta, 1990-1993. Professor Kappeler has extensive experience in diplomacy and international relations, and lectures and writes on international law, diplomatic and consular law, law of international institutions, human rights and humanitarian law, diplomacy, and constitutional and administrative law of Switzerland.
Born on 6 March 1933 in Berne, Switzerland, he was educated in Berne and in Beirut, Lebanon. He received a Bachelor's degree in French Law in 1953 from the Faculty of Law, Université St Joseph, Beirut. In 1955, he was licenced in Public Law by the Faculty of Law at the University of Berne, and recieved his doctorate in Public Law from the same institution in 1957.
Kappeler served in the Swiss diplomatic service from 1957 to 1965, with postings in The Hague and Algiers, as well with the Legal Department at headquarters. From 1965 to 1973, he was a personal assistant to Professor Paul Guggenheim and a consultant with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace working on the training of third world diplomats. He was involved in the creation of the International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC) in 1971 and the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies of the University of Nairobi in 1973. During the 1970s and 80s he was a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Geneva and a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. From the Graduate Institute, he was seconded as a lecturer to the University of Tehran and the University of Nairobi.
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- Education Programmes Coordinator
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- Columnist, Swiss Media 'Blick'
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- Managing Director at Deutor Cyber Security Solutions Switzerland GmbH
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- Member of the Coordination Team
- Director of Digital Policy
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- Digital Media & Communications Editor
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- Course Admissions Coordinator
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- Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity Governance, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University
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- Education Programmes Assistant
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- Postdoctoral Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin
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- Publications Graphic Designer
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- Member of the Coordination Team
- Director of Cybersecurity & E - Diplomacy
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- Director of the Diplomatic Studies Programme at Oxford University