Diplo Academy’s international faculty members are high-ranking practising and retired diplomats, as well as renowned academics and practitioners in the fields of digital policy, diplomacy, and international relations.
Many members are published authors and have been featured in the Diplo Wisdom Circle initiative that fosters the exchange of knowledge and views on diplomacy and beyond.
Aapo Cederberg
Associate Fellow, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Aishatu Gwadabe
Peace Technologist and AI Ethicist
Alan Franklin
Lecturer, Athabasca University and Royal University of Law and Economics
Amr Aljowaily
Strategic Advisor to the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission
Anastasiya Kazakova
Cyber Diplomacy Knowledge Fellow, Diplo
Andre Saramago
Online Learning & Research Assistant
Andrei Mikheyev
Internet Projects Manager at Yandex
Andrej Škrinjarić
Director of Education & Training, Diplo
Anne-Rachel Inné
Director of the ITU Regional Office for Africa
Anthony Land
Capacity Development Consultant
Arvin Kamberi
Head of Online Meetings, Diplo
Asoke Mukerji
Former Indian Ambassador
Avri Doria
Director at ICANN
Bhaskar Balakrishnan
Former Indian Ambassador
Biljana Scott
Associate of the China Centre, University of Oxford
Bipul Chatterjee
Executive Director, CUTS International
Carol Kiangura
Senior Program Officer, Sub-Saharan Africa, International Budget Partnership
Christopher Lamb
Former Australian Ambassador and Humanitarian Diplomacy Head, IFRC
Daniel Beaudoin
Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Tel Aviv University
Dejan Dinčić
Digital Transformation & Online Learning Specialist
Dominique Hempel Rodas
Independent Senior Advisor in International Relations, Development Cooperation, and Capacity Development
Eric H. Loeb
Executive Vice President, Global Government Affairs, Salesforce
Eugenio Vargas Garcia
Tech Diplomat; Deputy Consul General of Brazil, San Francisco
Hamish Low
Assistant Lecturer
Ibrahim Uvais
Ambassador of Maldives to Japan
Jean-Michel Monod
Former Head, Regional Delegation for North Africa, International Committee of the Red Cross
Jenny Pearson
Capacity Development Consultant
Jovan Kurbalija
Executive Director, Diplo
Katarina Bojović
Head of Knowledge Ecology, Diplo
Katherine Getao
Cyber Hygiene, Cyber Diplomacy, and ICT Strategy and Governance Consultant
Kishan S Rana
Professor Emeritus, former Indian Ambassador, and a joint secretary to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
Lee Hibbard
Administrator, Bioethics Unit, Council of Europe
Liz Galvez
Former Senior British Diplomat
Ljupčo Jivan Gjorgjinski
Senior Fellow for Science and Technology Diplomacy, Diplo
Lorrayne Porciuncula
Guest lecturer; Executive Director, Datasphere Initiative
Marga Gual Soler
Head of Science Diplomacy Capacity Building, Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator
Marília Maciel
Head of Digital Commerce & Internet Policy, Diplo
Martin Rauchbauer
Former Austrian Tech Ambassador in Silicon Valley; Founder & Co-Director, Tech Diplomacy Network
Mary Murphy
Communications Trainer
Massimiliano Fusari
Professor, Consultant and Trainer in Digital Marketing, Strategy & Visual Storytelling
Maxime Stauffer
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Simon Institute for Longterm Governance
Melissa Hathaway
President, Hathaway Global Strategies and Lecturer, Introduction to Digital Policy and Diplomacy, New York
Mialy Rann
Science-Policy Officer, Geneva Science-Policy Interface
Michaela Told
Executive Director, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva
Nicolas Seidler
Executive Director, Geneva Science-Policy Interface
Nikola Božić
Science educator and communicator
Parminder Jeet Singh
Guest lecturer; Executive Director, IT for Change
Patricia Gruver
International Tech Policy Expert
Pavlina Ittelson
Executive Director, Diplo US
Petru Dumitriu
Senior Diplo Fellow | Former ambassador of the Council of Europe and Inspector of the United Nations System
Phoebe Farag Mikhail
Education Diplomacy Consultant, Association for Childhood Education International
Rodrigo Márquez Lartigue
Mexican diplomat
Solange Mike
Associate Faculty Member, Diplo
Sorina Teleanu
Director of Knowledge, Diplo
Stacy Danika Alcantara-Garcia
Foreign Service Officer
Stefanie Frey
Managing Director at Deutor Cyber Security Solutions Switzerland GmbH
Stephanie Borg Psaila
Director of Digital Policy, Diplo
Tatiana Tropina
Assistant Professor in cybersecurity governance, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University
Thomas Schneider
Director of International Affairs, Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM)
Tim Flink
Postdoctoral Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Tore Svenning
Former Secretary of the Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
Virginia (Ginger) Paque
Internet Governance & E-diplomacy Coordinator, Diplo
Virginia Callau Vidal
International Cooperation Technician, Spanish Red Cross
Vladimir Radunović
Director of Cybersecurity & E-diplomacy, Diplo
Yolanda Kemp Spies
Director of the Diplomatic Studies Programme at Oxford University
