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Stefano
Baldi
Counselor, Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations in New York
Lecturer on IT and Diplomacy, DiploFoundation
Stefano Baldi is currently serving as Counselor as the Permanent Mission of
Italy to the United Nations in New York. He has served at the Permanent
Mission of Italy to the international organisations in Geneva, where he
developed several initiatives for the use of information technologies in the
diplomatic community. Baldi has an academic background in demography and
international social issues. He also lectures on the use of Internet for
ministries of foreign affairs and missions. Baldi’s most recent research
focuses on the impact and future developments of information technology on
international affairs.
Dr Nadia Boyadjieva
Assistant Professor of International Relations and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Plovdiv University
Dr Nadia Boyadjieva obtained an M.A. in history from the Faculty of History, Sofia University, in 1992. She completed her Ph.D. in history at the same university in 1999, with a dissertation on "The U.S. Policy towards the Conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1989-1995)." Since 2000 she has held the post of Assistant Professor of International Relations and Human Rights in the Faculty of Law, Plovdiv University. She was an Open Society Archive Fellow in Budapest, Hungary, in 1998, a NATO EAPC Fellow from 2001-2003, and a Free University of Berlin Fellow at the JFK Institute in 2003. Dr Boyadjieva is the author of a monographic book on the History of International Relations (17th-20th century), and has published a number of articles on international relations, European diplomacy in the Cold War years, legal and international aspects of EU enlargement and other topics. She has participated in various international
(EU) projects including educational institutions and NGOs.
Professor Marie-Therese Claes
Professor of Intercultural Communication and Management, ICHEC Brussels Business School and University of Louvain
Professor Marie-Therese Claes lectures on intercultural communication and management at ICHEC Brussels Business School and at the University of Louvain. She has lectured in many countries in Europe and on other continents, and is a former president of SIETAR Europa (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research) and of EWMD (European Women in Management Development). She has recently published a book on
Communication and Values in an International Perspective, as well as many articles on communication and international management.
Dr Eduardo Gelbstein
Senior Fellow, United Nations Institute for Training and Research
Lecturer in Information Security, DiploFoundation
Eduardo Gelbstein is a Diplo Fellow, a Senior Special Fellow of the United Nations Institute
for Training and Research. He has extensive experience in inter-professional and
multicultural activities related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and in
the organizational and social impact of ICT from the use of IT.
Born in Argentina to Polish parents, with a French maternal grandmother and a Dutch wife,
he holds a British passport and lives in France. Reasonably fluent in seven languages, he
has worked professionally in Argentina, the Netherlands, the UK, Australia, Switzerland, the
United States and Italy.
His professional activities cover 40 years of experience in the private and public sector and
exposure to the professional cultures of nuclear physisists, information technologists,
vendors, auditors, police officers, politicians, diplomats and the United Nations. He retired as
Director of the International Computing Centre of the United Nations in 2002 and is currently
working on a project for the United Nations Board of External Auditors.
His personal interests include the history of humankind and the histories of science and
technology, the processes of thinking and creativity. He is also an amateur pianist.
Dr Kostadin Grozev
Assistant Professor, Chair of Modern and Contemporary World History, Faculty of History, Sofia University
Dr Kostadin Grozev graduated from the Faculty of History, Sofia University, in 1985 with an M.A. in history and a minor in English language. He completed his Ph.D. in history in 1990 with a dissertation on "The Democratic Party and the Movement for Reform within the Political System of the United States (1969-1972)." Since 1990 he has held the post of Assistant Professor at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary World History, Faculty of History, Sofia University. In 1992 he was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, UK, and in 1998 an Open Society Archive Fellow in Budapest, Hungary. From 1999-2000 he held the post of Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA, and in 2001, he was a Senior British Academy Fellow at the Univesity of Hull. Dr Grozev is the author of one of Bulgaria's current 10th grade high-school textbooks on World and Civilization in the 20th Century, as well as of numerous articles on US political and social history, international relations, the Cold War, European diplomacy after the Second World War, European integration, and transition trends in Eastern Europe after 1989. He is the founder of Europartners 2000 Foundation and has been a member of the Managing Board of the Bulgarian American Studies Association since 2002. Since 1994 he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the MINALO quarterly in History.
Professor Geert Hofstede
Professor Emeritus of Organisational Anthropology and International Management of Maastricht University
Fellow of IRIC, the Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation, and of the Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University
Professor Geert Hofstede holds a Master's level degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delft Technical University. He worked in different Dutch companies in roles varying from production worker to plant manager. After a part-time study he obtained a cum laude Doctorate in Social Psychology at Groningen University. From 1965 to 1971 he founded and managed the Personnel Research department of IBM Europe; he was involved in research in nearly all countries of Western Europe and the Middle East. He subsequently became a faculty member and researcher at IMD, Switzerland; INSEAD, France; EIASM, Belgium and IIASA, Austria. From 1980 to 1983 he returned to industry as a Director of Human Resources of Fasson Europe, Leiden. Through the publication in the USA of his scholarly book "Culture's Consequences" (1980, new edition 2001), he became a founder of comparative intercultural research; his ideas are used worldwide. His popular book "Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind" (1991) has so far appeared in 17 languages. He has taught at universities in Hong Kong, Hawaii and Australia. He is a Doctor Honoris Causa of four European universities. Currently, Professor Hofstede is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Anthropology and International Management of Maastricht University. Since his retirement in 1993 he has been a Fellow of IRIC, the Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation and of the CentER for Economic Research, both at Tilburg University. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management in the USA.
Professor Dietrich Kappeler
President, DiploFoundation
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. He is currently the president of the DiploFoundation.
Dr Daniel J. Kealey
Senior Research Consultant, Centre for Intercultural Learning, Canadian Foreign Service Institute
Dr Daniel Kealey, a social and clinical psychologist, has spent most of his career developing tools and procedures for use in the selection, training, monitoring, and evaluation of international personnel. He has consulted with many organisations throughout the world including Citigroup, International Red Cross, Canadian Space Agency, and AT&T. Currently, he serves as the Senior Research Consultant to the Centre for Intercultural Learning. In collaboration with the Centre, he has developed and tested the Intercultural Living and Working Inventory (ILWI), an instrument designed to measure intercultural competency and readiness to undertake an international assignment. He and his colleagues have published several books and journal articles in the intercultural field, and given many workshops and conference presentations over the past 25 years.
Jovan Kurbalija
Director, DiploFoundation
Jovan Kurbalija is the founding director of DiploFoundation. He is a former diplomat with professional and academic background in international law, diplomacy and information technology. Since the late 1980s he has been involved in research on ICT and law. In 1992 he established the Unit for IT and Diplomacy at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in Malta. After more than ten years of successful work in the field of training, research and publishing the Unit evolved in 2003 into DiploFoundation. Mr Kurbalija currently directs online learning courses on ICT and diplomacy and lectures in academic and training institutions in Switzerland, United States, Austria, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Malta. His main areas of research are diplomacy and development of the international regime on the Internet, use of hypertext in diplomacy, online negotiations, and diplomatic law.
Doug MacDonald
Deputy Director and Head of Research, Centre for Intercultural Learning, Canadian Foreign Service Institute
Doug MacDonald has been working in the combined fields of intercultural effectiveness and adult learning since 1987. He has worked extensively in other countries and cultures. As Deputy Director and Head of Research for the Centre for Intercultural Learning, he manages the design and development of new products and leads the Centre's research team. He holds a Bachelors degree (honours) in Human Kinetics and a Masters degree in Sport and Recreation Administration.
Valeriu Nicolae
Deputy Director, European Roma Information Office
Valeriu Nicolae is currently the deputy director of the Brussels-based
European Roma Information Office, an advocacy organisation which promotes
the social inclusion of Roma through lobbying activities. He has worked in
the field of human rights for Roma for more than 12 years, as a volunteer
and with non-governmental organisations. In additions, he has background in
the business and information technology fields, in Romania, USA, Canada and
Malta, and in the diplomatic service, in Romania. In 2001 Mr Nicolae
received a scholarship as a Roma participant in DiploFoundation's
Postgraduate Diploma Program in Diplomacy and Information Technology.
Ambassador Kishan S. Rana
Lecturer on bilateral diplomacy, DiploFoundation
Professor Emeritus at the Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi
Ambassador Kishan S. Rana retired as ambassador to Germany in 1995, after 35 years in the Indian Foreign Service (serving as ambassador/high commissioner in Algiers, Prague, Nairobi, and Mauritius, and consul general in San Francisco). He was a joint secretary in Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's office from 1981 to 1982. Ambassador Rana specialised in economic diplomacy, and worked initially on Chinese affairs. Since 1995 he has worked as a business advisor, assisting international and Indian companies, and taught at the Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi. He has written a study of the diplomatic process, Inside Diplomacy (October 1999), and is co-author of Managing Corporate Culture, a book on business culture in India (November 1999). His most recent publication is Bilateral Diplomacy (2002).
Dr Raymond Saner
Director, Center for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development, Geneva
Dr Raymond Saner has 20 years of experience as a trainer and consultant in
the fields of globalisation, leadership development and international
negotiations with multinational companies, governments and international
institutions. He has worked as a consultant to the United Nations and its
specialised agencies and other intergovernmental organisations as well as
for multinational companies and enterprises in developing and transition
economies. Saner also teaches at the Centre of Economics and Business
Administration at the University of Basle, Switzerland, and conducts
negotiation seminars for management executives and diplomats in Asia, Europe
and the Americas. Saner's academic record includes graduate studies in
Switzerland, Germany and the USA. He has authored numerous articles, edited
books, chaired international conferences and served on committees of
academic organisations. He is an active member of the Academy of Management,
the International Institute of Administrative Sciences and the Society for
the Advancement of Socio-economics. Saner is president and partner of
Organisational Consultants Ltd., a consulting firm specialising in
international management, organisation development and business diplomacy.
He is also a director of the Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development in
Geneva, Switzerland focusing on socio-economic research and reform in the
public sector.
Dr Biljana Scott
Centre for Linguistics and Philology, University of Oxford
Lecturer on Language and Diplomacy, DiploFoundation
Dr Biljana Scott has been teaching linguistics at the University of Oxford since 1990. Her special interests include Chinese, cognitive linguistics, political language, and visual language. She recently obtained a postgraduate diploma in Information Technology and Diplomacy from DiploFoundation and has been teaching Language and Diplomacy for Diplo ever since.
Professor Paul Sharp
Professor and Head of Political Science, and Director of the Alworth Institute for
International Studies, University of Minnesota Duluth
Professor Paul Sharp is Head of Political Science at the University of Minnesota Duluth where he is also Director of the Alworth Institute for International Studies. He has published books on Irish foreign policy and the EC and British foreign policy under Margaret Thatcher. He has written several articles on diplomacy including, most recently, an assessment of the contribution of Herbert Butterfield's Christian ethics and historiography to understanding diplomacy for International Affairs and a study of the Taliban mission in Islamabad for The Review of International Studies. He is currently working on two projects: a diplomatic theory of international relations; and the diplomacy of "outlaw" regimes and revolutionary states, and he is founding chair of both the Diplomatic Studies and the English School sections of the International Studies Association.
Professor Lamija
Tanovic
Head of the Department for International Scientific, Technical, Educational
and Cultural Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Professor of Physics at Sarajevo University
Professor Lamija Tanovic is currently a professor of Atomic and Nuclear
Physics and Solid State Physics at the Faculty of Sciences, University of
Sarajevo. She is also the head of the Department for International
Scientific, Technical, Educational and Cultural Cooperation at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia-Herzegovina. She was Ambassador of
Bosnia-Herzegovina to the Kingdom of Denmark during the recent war in Bosnia
and Herzegovina and immediately after the war from 1994 until 2001. She has
published several student textbooks in General Physics and she has been the
editor of two Proceedings in the Physics of Ionized Gases and in Applied
Physics. She has also published a number of works in international journals
in the area of Physics of Materials and Thin Films Physics. Professor
Tanovic is a member of the European Academy of Science.
Thomas Vulpe
Director, Centre for Intercultural Learning, Canadian Foreign Service
Institute
Thomas Vulpe has fourteen years experience in intercultural performance
consulting including needs analysis, design, delivery, evaluation,
management and research. The Centre for Intercultural Learning provides
services to over 3000 individuals each year from the fields of diplomacy,
international development and international business. Mr Vulpe is co-author of A Profile of the Interculturally Effective Person,
a detailed intercultural competency profile. He is currently working closely
with Dr Daniel Kealey on the refinement of the Intercultural Living and
Working Inventory, a personnel assessment/selection tool based on Dr
Kealey' s research into the determining factors of international success. Mr Vulpe
has been vice-president and president/owner of intercultural training firms
and has worked for several government agencies over the course of his
career. He holds a BA in anthropology from the University of Western Ontario
and is completing a diploma in adult education at St. Francis Xavier
University.
Dr Geoffrey Wiseman
School of International Relations, University of Southern California
Dr Geoffrey Wiseman was an Australian diplomat, serving at embassies in Stockholm Hanoi, and Brussels, and as private secretary to the Australian Foreign Minister. He also worked at the Ford Foundation in New York as a grant-making program officer for international peace and security. He has a Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford University, and currently teaches diplomacy and international security in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His book,
Concepts of Non-Provocative Defence, was published in 2002 and he has written articles on common security and Asia-Pacific security. His current research is on diplomatic culture and innovation.
Dr Lichia Yiu
President, Center for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development, Geneva
Dr Lichia Yiu has more than fifteen years of consulting and teaching
experience in leadership development, cross-cultural communication and
organisational change in Asia, North America, Western Europe, and Africa.
She works with UN organisations and national governments on building
internal capacities for transformation and performance improvement. Yiu
works also with multinational companies on issues related to developing
transnational leadership, building cross-border teams for technological
innovation and on business development in emerging markets. Yiu is the
president of the Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development in Geneva,
Switzerland and partner of Organisational Consultants Ltd. Hong Kong. She is
also a faculty member of the Department of NGO Management of the National
Cheng-chi University of Taipei and a member of professional organisations
including the Academy of Management and the International Institute of
Administrative Sciences. She has published 7 books and more than 40
articles. Her current research interests are human capital formation and
quality of training and education, chaos and complexity theory and its
application to large social system change, business diplomacy and
multi-stakeholder relationships, and global leadership.
Dr R.S. Zaharna
American University, Washington, DC
Dr Rhonda Zaharna is director of the Graduate Program in Public Communication for Professionals at the School of Communication, American University in Washington, DC. She has written and lectured extensively international public relations and specializes in communication issues affecting Arab and American relations. Since the mid-seventies, she has served as a media advisor and communication consultant with international corporations, non-governmental organizations and diplomatic missions, including the United Nations, World Bank, and USAID. She recently testified before the U.S. Congress on American public diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim world. Zaharna was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Najah University in the West Bank (1996-1997). She holds an undergraduate degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and graduate degrees in Communication from Columbia University.
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