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Conference Speakers
Adam Blackwell
Adam Blackwell, currently the Director General of the Strategy and
Services Bureau, is a career diplomat with over 20 years of experience
in the Department of Foreign Affairs Canada and International Trade.
From 2002 to 2005, he was Canada's Ambassador to the Dominican
Republic, and has also served in Mexico, New York and a variety of assignments in Africa and at Headquarters.
Philippe Burrin
Professor Philippe Burrin is currently the Director of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He is a member of the faculty of the International History and Politics department of the Graduate Institute since 1988. His research interests are Fascism, Nazism, Antisemitism, Military occupations and Nazi Europe. Professor Burrin taught in many distinguished universities. In 1990 he received the François Millepierres Prize of the Académie française for his book “Hitler et les Juifs. Genèse d’un genocide”, Paris, editions du Seuil , and in 1997 the Max-Planck Forschungspreis.
Doru Costea
Ambassador Doru Costea is currently the permanent representative of Romania to the United Nations office in Geneva. He has been with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1990. He was an Ambassador to the State of Kuweit and Sultanate of Oman (1991 – 1995), and the Arab Republic of Egypt (1997 – 2001). The last position in the MFA was director of the Department of Analysis and Information.
He is a graduate of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the University of Bucharest, with Arabic and English as majors; currently, he is studying for a Ph.D. in international relations – political sciences with the National School for Administrative and Political Studies in Bucharest.
In 2003, he was awarded the Romanian MFA Annual Prize for Innovative Diplomacy. Over the years he had delivered lectures on the diplomatic information and analysis, at the Diplomatic Academy of the MFA; on the Romanian foreign policy, at the Academy of High Military Studies, Bucharest; and was a guest professor at the NATO Studies Centre in Bucharest and the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Bucharest, where he lectured mainly on political aspects of Islam and developments in the Middle East.
David Criekemans
Dr. David Criekemans is a Postdoctoral Researcher in International Politics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). MA International Politics (Antwerp, 1996), European Master of Public Administration (Leuven, 1997), Ph.D. International Relations (Antwerp, 2005). Since 1998, he has contributed as a researcher and adviser to different policy-oriented research projects on Flemish foreign policy at the University of Antwerp (Belgium); “the political and strategic importance of a Flemish cooperation with the Nordic countries” (1998-1999), “the possibilities and opportunities for growth for Flanders in intergovernmental multilateral organisations” (1999-2001), “a future perspective on a Flemish policy towards Central- and Eastern Europe” (2003). In 2005, he also completed and defended his Ph. D. on the intellectual history of Geopolitics (1890-2005), and its relation to Theory of International Relations. The manuscript (written in Dutch) will be published later this year in two volumes by the Scientific Publisher Garant & Maklu (Antwerp/Apeldoorn). David Criekemans’ future research will be entitled “reterritorialisation and para-diplomacy”, in which he will expand his research to include a more comparative based study of the foreign policy and diplomatic representation of newly emerging non-central actors (sub-national, trans-border and macro-regional).
Ron Garson
Ron Garson is Director of the Policy Research Division within the Strategic Policy and Public Diplomacy Branch of Foreign Affairs Canada. He is responsible for developing a forward research agenda for the department. Before joining Foreign Affairs, Mr Garson was Director of Strategic Policy for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). He also worked at Canada’s Privy Council Office in 2002-2003 where he served on a task force looking at the growing involvement of domestic departments and sub-national governments in international relations.
Presently on research leave from Lisbon’s Technical University – ISCSP – Pedro Conceição Parreira have been a Professor’s assistant in the International Political Economy field since 2000. Among other past projects and articles, he published two books about East Timor: one about the economy and other as an editor on Public Administration aspects.
He is currently working on “Economic Diplomacy” as a PhD student in Exeter Politics Department and also maintains as researcher in the Centre for Administration and Public Policies (CAPP) in ISCSP. In CAPP one of the research projects that he is collaborating is: “Public Administration and Competitiveness in a Comparative European Perspective” - 2005-07.
Blaise Godet
Blaise Godet was born in 1947 in Neuchatel. He has a law degree from the University of Neuchatel and is qualified as a lawyer. He started his professional career in one of the big Swiss banks and entered the diplomatic service in 1974. Following diplomatic internships in Berne and at the Swiss Embassy in Pretoria, he returned in 1976 to the Directorate of International Law of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Berne. In 1980, he was posted to Jeddah where he was promoted to counsellor to the Ambassador in 1984. In the same year, he was transferred, in the same capacity, to the Swiss Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. In 1986, the Federal Council appointed him as vice-director of the Directorate of International Law with the title of minister and, in 1989, he was promoted to the post of deputy-director. From 1993, he was Swiss ambassador to Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia with residence in Bangkok. In 1997, he was appointed Ambassador to Egypt and Sudan with residence in Cairo, and in 2000 he was also accredited in Eritrea. Since August 2001, he was ambassador and head of the Political Affairs Directorate of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. In this capacity, he also hold the post of vice-chairman of the Presence Switzerland (PRS) Commission.
Mr. Blaise Godet has been appointed as Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations Office and to the other international organizations in Geneva as well as Permanent Representative to the Conference of Disarmament on November 1st, 2004.
Maaike Heijmans
Maaike Heijmans is a Research Fellow in the Clingendael Diplomatic Studies Programme (CDSP) at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’, The Hague. She is currently engaged in a research project on consular affairs commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before joining Clingendael, she worked at the Embassy of Japan in The Hague. Ms Heijmans holds a master of arts in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam and a second MA in Asia-Pacific International Relations from Waseda University in Tokyo. She has a particular academic interest in the political-economy of the East Asian region. She has lived and studied in the United States, Hong Kong and Japan, and travelled extensively in (East) Asia since 1995.
John Hemery
Since 1990, designer and director of programmes of training for the
foreign ministries of more than forty developing and developed countries. Provider of training in political work and
political negotiation for the UK FCO, and of specialist programmes of
training in public diplomacy and trade diplomacy; training for EU integration and accession, and courses of specialist preparation for the
EU Presidencies of the UK, Finland and Slovenia. Currently Chair of the
European Diplomatic Training Initiative and Rapporteur of the International Forum on Diplomatic Training.
Brian Hocking
Brian Hocking is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies at Loughborough University, UK. He has taught and held visiting fellowships at universities in Australia, the USA and Europe. Research interests focus on the interaction between domestic and international forces in the conduct of foreign and foreign economic policy and the impact of globalisation on the nature and organisation of diplomacy. Publications include: Localizing Foreign Policy: Non-Central Governments and Multilayered Diplomacy, Macmillan, 1993; Foreign Ministries: Change and Adaptation, (contributor and editor), London, Macmillan, 1999; Trade Politics (editor, with
S.M. McGuire), London, Routledge, 2004, and Foreign Ministries in the European Union Integrating Diplomats (editor, with D. Spence), London,
Palgrave, 2005.
Dietrich Kappeler
Swiss diplomatic service 1957-1965. Consultant for diplomatic training, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1966-1973.
Research fellow at Law Faculty, University of Geneva 1972-1975. Professor of International Law and Diplomacy associated with IUHEI 1975-1998, on secondment to University of Tehran 1975-1977, University of Nairobi 1977-1990.
Founding Director (1990-1993) and Chairman (1993-1998) of Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, Malta.
Director of Diplomatic Studies Programmes IUHEI 1993-1998. Consultant since 1998 and President since 2002 of DiploFoundation.
Markus Kummer
Markus Kummer is the Executive Coordinator of the Secretariat supporting the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). He was appointed to this post by the United Nations Secretary-General in March 2006. Previously he headed the Secretariat of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), which was established by the Secretary-General on a mandate by the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society. From 2002 until 2004 he held the position as
eEnvoy of the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Berne. His main tasks included foreign policy co-ordination with regard to information and communication technologies in general and the WSIS in particular. Mr. Kummer was a member of the Swiss delegation during the first phase of the WSIS where he chaired several negotiating groups, including the group on Internet Governance. He is a career diplomat who served in several functions in the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Berne, Lisbon, Vienna, Oslo, Geneva and Ankara.
Jovan Kurbalija
Jovan Kurbalija is the founding Director of DiploFoundation. Since 1995, he
has been directing courses in diplomacy and ICTs, in which more than 600
diplomats, government officials, and ICT specialists have participated. His
primary research interest is the impact of ICT/Internet on diplomacy and
modern international relations. Dr Kurbalija has a professional and academic
background in diplomacy, international law, and information technology. He
holds a LL.D, an MA and a PhD in International Law from the University of
Belgrade, and a Master in Diplomacy from the Mediterranean Academy of
Diplomatic Studies, University of Malta. He was a member of the UN Working
Group on Internet Governance.
Lars-Göran Larsson
Lars-Göran Larsson is a B.Sc. and was a Political Science Ph.D. student at the Universities of Vienna (Austria) and Gothenburg (Sweden) for three years on the topic on "European
Political Cooperation", (now the GUSP). He joined the Swedish foreign service in 1991 and has a broad experience in various fields of foreign affairs, including assignments in Havana, Bonn and Berlin. He is presently Deputy Director-General and was in year 2003 assigned the mission to facilitate a strategic and comprehensive modernization work for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He is the founder and head of its Corporate Department Division and member of the Administrative Board of the ministry, and represents it and the Government Office in the two most important Swedish academies in developing public administration, consisting of academics and practioners. He was also on the Board of Examiners for the Swedish Quality Award 2005.
John Mathiason
BA summa cum laude, St. Olaf College, PhD in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Adjunct Professor of
International Relations, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs,
Syracuse University, teaching courses in international public management.
Founding Partner, the Internet Governance Project. A career member of the
United Nations Secretariat, 1971-1997. Was Deputy Director of the Division
for the Advancement of Women 1987-1996. Managing Director of Associates for
International Management Services. Publications include: Eliminating Weapons
of Mass Destruction: Prospects for Effective International Verification
(2005), Invisible Governance: International Secretariats in World Politics
(2006).
Aldo Matteucci
Born in Rome (Italy) in 1942, Aldo Matteucci has spent most of his working life external trade policy and administration. In 1966 he graduated as an agronomist from the Federal Technology Institute in Zürich, followed by graduate work in Agricultural Economics (M.Sc.) at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Swiss Federal Office for External Economic Affairs in Berne and was seconded as Deputy Director of the EUREKA Secretariat (Brussels) and as Deputy Secretary-General of the European Free Trade Association (Geneva). He retired early upon completion of this last assignment. He is Senior Fellow of
DiploFoundation.
Jan Melissen
Jan Melissen is Director of the Clingendael Diplomatic Studies Programme (CDSP) at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’, The Hague, and Professor of Diplomacy at Antwerp University (Belgium). He is Co-Editor of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy and Managing Editor of the web-based Discussion Papers in Diplomacy. He has a research interest in contemporary diplomacy. His five books include Innovation in Diplomatic Practice (Macmillan, 1999) and The New Public Diplomacy (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005). Jan Melissen acts as an adviser to the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs on public diplomacy, diplomatic training and, in the context of the project presented here, consular affairs. His Programme at Clingendael provides training courses for diplomatic services from many countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Before moving to the Clingendael Institute he was Director of the Centre for the Study of Diplomacy at the University of Leicester (UK). He graduated in politics and international relations at the University of Amsterdam and holds a doctorate from Groningen University.
John O'Keefe
Ambassador John O'Keefe, of Vienna, Virginia, is a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister
Counselor. Before assuming his duties as Acting Director General in February 2006, he
served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of the Director General, Bureau of Human Resources since April 2004. Prior to that,
Ambassador O'Keefe headed the Office of Career Development and Assignments from July 2003 to April 2004. He served as U.S.
Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan from August 2000 to July 2003. During his time in the Kyrgyz Republic he negotiated a status of forces agreement
to deploy combat and logistics air support for operations in Afghanistan, and helped create a six person Advisory Council to
attract investment, chaired by the Kyrgyz President.
Pedro Conceição Parreira
Presently on research leave from Lisbon’s Technical University – ISCSP – Pedro Conceição Parreira have been a Professor’s assistant in the International Political Economy field since 2000. Among other past projects and articles, he published two books about East Timor: one about the economy and other as an editor on Public Administration aspects.
He is currently working on “Economic Diplomacy” as a PhD student in Exeter Politics Department and also maintains as researcher in the Centre for Administration and Public Policies (CAPP) in ISCSP. In CAPP one of the research projects that he is collaborating is: “Public Administration and Competitiveness in a Comparative European Perspective” - 2005-07.
Karl Theodor Paschke
A lawyer by training, was a member of the German Foreign Service for more than 40 years. His career included posts in Europe, Africa and the USA. He was Spokesman of the Foreign Office, Ambassador to the International Organisations in Vienna, Minister Plenipotentiary in Washington, D.C., and Director General for Personnel and Administration in Bonn. From 1994 to 1999, he served as UnderSecretary General with the United Nations in New York.
He retired in 2000 and now teaches at the Graduate School of Public Policy of the University of Erfurt, chairs the Budget Committee of the International Criminal Court in The Hague and this year, he has been reactivated as Special Envoy of the German Government for UN Management Reform.
Kishan Rana
BA (Hons), MA Economics, St. Stephens College, Delhi. Served the Indian Foreign Service, 1960-95. Ambassador/High Commissioner to
Algeria, Czechoslovakia, Kenya, Mauritius, and Germany. Joint Secretary, Prime Minister's Office 1981-82. Professor Emeritus,
Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi; Senior Fellow, DiploFoundation;
Commonwealth Adviser, Namibia Foreign Ministry (2000-01); Archives By-Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge; Public Policy Scholar,
Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC. Publications: Inside Diplomacy
(2000); Managing Corporate Culture, (co-author, 2000); Bilateral Diplomacy (2002); The 21st Century Ambassador: Plenipotentiary to
Chief Executive (2004).
Algimantas Rimkunas
Master degree in Economics (Hons), Vilnius University, (1975). Ph. D.
in Econometrics, Vilnius University, (1981). Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associated professor; Vice-dean - Vilnius University,
Faculty of Economics, (1975-1992). From 1990 in the Lithuanian Foreign
Service: Expert, Counsellor (1990-1992); Economic Counsellor in the Lithuanian Embassy in the Kingdom of Belgium (1993-1995);
Undersecretary, Vice-minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1995-2000); Head of the negotiations on Lithuania's accession to the
WTO (1995-2000); Permanent Representative, ambassador of Lithuania to
the UN Office in Geneva and other international organisations (2000-2005); State Secretary (from 2005).
Raymond Saner
Raymond Saner has 20 years of experience in teaching, training, and research in the field of diplomacy, international relations, business, and national development. He is also Director of
DiplomacyDialogue, and Co-founder and Director of the Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development, which has been based in Geneva since 1993 and teaches at Basle University and Sciences Po in Paris. He has published extensively on development related issues and has 20 years of consulting experience with United Nations agencies and national
governments and diplomatic academies.
Raymond Saner has 20 years of experience in teaching, training, and research in the field of diplomacy, international relations, business, and national development. He is also Director of
DiplomacyDialogue, and Co-founder and Director of the Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development, which has been based in Geneva since 1993 and teaches at Basle University and Sciences Po in Paris. He has published extensively on development related issues and has 20 years of consulting experience with United Nations agencies and national governments and diplomatic academies.
Vitavas Srivihok
Mr. Vitavas Srivihok was born on 19 May 1961. He received his Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Chulalongkorn
University, Bangkok and Master's degree (Hons.) in International Relations from University of Mississippi. In 1986, He joined the Thai
Foreign Service, and served in various positions. He was posted to the
Permanent Mission of Thailand to the United Nations in New York from
1990 -1995. Apart from his experience in multilateral diplomacy, Mr.
Srivihok has been instrumental in reforming the Thai Foreign Service
to streamline with the public sector reform scheme of the Government
and the changes of the globalized world. He is currently an Ambassador
attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Rolando Stein
Rolando Stein, Lawyer (Universidad de Chile), post graduate studies
WWS, Princeton University. Entered the Foreign Service of Chile in 1959. Posts in UN Geneva, Italy, Rumania, Bolivia, Brazil, Portugal,
Australia and Czech Republic. Within the MFA headed Multilateral Division; Special Policies Division; Environmental Division. Chilean
Chief negotiator in Environment Issues. Published as editor "Environment and Foreign Policy". Retired as Ambassador in June 2000.
Since June 2001, Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Chile.
Fauziah Mohamad Taib
Dr Fauziah Mohamad Taib is the Director General of the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations (IDFR), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia. Prior to this, she was Malaysia’s Ambassador to Fiji and its Deputy Chief of Mission at the Malaysian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Dr Fauziah is the author of three books:
Malaysia and UNCED (1997); A Diplomat Arrives in Washington (2003); and Rumah Malaysia, Suva: The Residence of the High Commissioner
(2004).
Alex Sceberras Trigona
Dr. Alex Sceberras Trigona is a Rhodes Scholar graduating from Oxford University following his Doctorate in Constitutional Law which was seminal in transforming Malta from a monarchy to a Republic. He practised foreign relations as International Secretary of the Malta Labour Party, Foreign Minister (1981-1987) and as Parliamentary Front bench spokesman on Foreign Affairs. He secured and managed Malta's first ever seat at the United Nations Security Council (1983-1984) and negotiated Malta's Neutrality Treaties.
Since the early '90s he taught Diplomacy at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, the organization for Democratic Control of the Armed Forces and with DiploFoundation where he is a Senior Fellow for whom he has organized a variety of simulations of international negotiations. He also lectures on Private International Law at the University of Malta, Law Faculty and practices law in Malta.
Benedict von Tscharner
Benedict von Tscharner, born 1937; German speaking Swiss citizen. Graduated from Basel University; doctoral thesis in International Law
on the GATT. Entered the Swiss Diplomatic Service in 1963. Specialist
in international energy affairs, international security affairs, and
European integration. Promoted as ambassador in 1980; appointed Delegate for Trade Agreements. Handled the International Energy
Agency in Paris, the European Communities in Brussels (1987 to 1993), the IAEA and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, in Vienna (1993 to 1997). Swiss Ambassador to France from 1997 to 2002. Has lectured and written on diplomacy and on European
integration; presently teaching at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations and elsewhere. His latest book covers
experience as a Swiss Ambassador to France ("Profession Ambassadeur", Editions Cabédita, 2002). Chairs the Foundation for
the History of the Swiss Abroad.
Lichia Yiu
Lichia Yiu works with United Nations organisations and national governments in building internal capacities for transformation and performance improvement. She also works with multinational companies on issues related to developing trans-national leadership, building cross-border teams for technological innovation, and on business development in emerging markets. Her current research interests are human capital formation and quality of training and education, business diplomacy, multistakeholder relationships, and global leadership. She is President of the Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development in Geneva and a partner of Organisational Consultants Ltd. Hong Kong. She has published 7 books and 40 articles in different professional journals.
Tatiana Zonova
PhD in Political Science (1995), professor of comparative theory of diplomacy. Head of the department for the study of diplomacy at MGIMO-University. Diplomatic rank of the 1st class Counselor. Main publications (in Russia, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Armenia):
Vatican diplomacy in the context of European political system; The modern pattern of diplomacy: origins and future developments; From the Europe of States to the Europe of Regions? -- and others.
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