The Global Diplomacy Lab is launching its official podcast! We are a platform for new and more inclusive diplomatic approaches. Hosted by GDL Member Khaldun Al Saadi, the GDL Coffee Break Podcast seeks to get an inside look at the perspectives on global challenges and the work routines of the wonderful guests Khaldun will be interviewing each episode, which will range from experts to activists, young diplomats and more. To dive into these exciting topics, don’t forget to have a look at the show notes for the episodes, which include material referenced in the interviews. Grab up a cup of coffee and enjoy the conversation!
Coffee Break Podcast: Dean Dirk Brengelmann on Diplomatic Tenacity
In this episode of GDL member Khaldun Al Saadi’s Coffee Break Podcast, GDL’s Dean Dirk Brengelmann discusses the art of diplomacy and the importance of bridging differences and strengthening relations.Dean Brengelmann has held several bilateral positions, for example as German Ambassador to Brazil and the Netherlands. His professional life has mainly comprised of multilateral posts, including in NATO. He describes the delicate task of an ambassador whose function involves bringing together di...
21 Aug 2023
Coffee Break Podcast: Patrick Mpedzisi on Managing Diversity
In this episode of GDL member Khaldun Al Saadi’s Coffee Break Podcast, fellow member Patrick Mpedzisi talks about global inequality, management of diversity and the impact of migration on Europe.Patrick Mpedzisi is an organisational development consultant with over two decades of experience in the NGO sector of Africa. Over the course of his professional career, Patrick created new and innovative processes for CSOs in Africa to engage in regional processes. He has managed major CSO initiative...
14 Jul 2023
Katarzyna Hanula Bobbitt and Mahmoud Javadi on Impact on Diplomacy
What does Impact on Diplomacy actually mean? In this special episode of GDL member Khaldun Al Saadi's coffee break podcast, members Katarzyna Hanula- Bobbitt and Mahmoud Javadi share their expertise and experience.WebsiteInstagramLinkedIn
7 Jul 2023
Mahmoud Javadi on Human Security
In this episode of GDL member Khaldun Al Saadi's Coffee Break Podcast, speaks to Mahmoud Javadi, an AI Governance Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Postgraduate Researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, on Human Security.WebsiteInstagramLinkedIn
26 Jun 2023
Katarzyna Hanula Bobbitt on Refugees
In this episode of the GDL Coffee Break Podast, Host Khaldun Al Saadi's talks to fellow member Katarzyna Hanula Bobbitt about the reductive perception of refugees as an economic burden rather than as human beings and what to do about that.WebsiteInstagramLinkedIn
14 Mar 2023
#7: Ghada Zribi on Youth Voices
In this episode of the GDL Coffee Break Podcast hosted by Khaldun Al Saadi,GDL Member Ghada Zribi talks about the importance of including youth voices in policy making processes.Ghada co-hosted a GDL Lab on "Bringing Youth Voices into 21st Century Policies" in July 2022. The project aimed at bringing the voices of youth to the negotiating table and designing policy recommendations on future work, capitalizing on the demographic dividend and addressing the aspirations of youth. Ghada also...
12 Jan 2023
#6: Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti on Russian Soft Power
In this episode, host Khaldun Al Saadi talks to GDL Member Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti. She is currently working as a research fellow at the Russia, Causasus, and Central Asia Centre at ISPI (Italian Institute For International Political Studies). Prior to working at the ISPI, she completed her PhD at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, and is a Marie Curie Fellow. In her field of work, Eleonora is focusing on Russian Foreign Policy and Soft Power, EU-Russia and...
18 May 2022
#5: ElsaMarie D'Silva on Gender-based and Sexual Violence
In this episode, host Khaldun Al Saadi talks to ElsaMarie D'Silva. She currently serves as president of the Red Dot Foundation Global, an NGO that works to end violence against women. She is also the innovator of Safecity, an online platform developed by Red Dot Foundation that uses crowdsourcing to track reports of sexual violence and harassment in public spaces and maps this data to show unsafe areas in cities. Since launching Safecity in 2012, Elsa has overseen the platform’s r...
27 Apr 2022
#4: Dulguun Batmunkh on Education
In this episode host Khaldun Al Saadi talks to Dulguun Batmunkh, from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She is pursuing a MA in International Policy at Stanford University, California, United States. She earned a BA in International Relations from the National University of Mongolia, and a MBA in Public Policy from the University of Finance and Economics in Mongolia. Dulguun worked as a Program Manager at the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, where she established civic education programs and networking platf...
15 Mar 2022
#3: Tamara Gómez Marín on Climate Change
Welcome to the third episode of the Global Diplomacy Lab Coffee Break Podcast. Tamara Gómez Marín is our guest in this episode. She is the Consul General of Costa Rica in Rome, Italy. She talks about putting people first in her work as a diplomat, climate change and how the project Circular Cities tries to solve it as well as her believe in solidarity as a source of inspiration. · You can find an article on Developing a circular economy at the local level in Costa Rica here.· ...
24 Feb 2022
#2: Omar Jagne on Informal Markets
Welcome to the second episode of the Global Diplomacy Lab Coffee Break Podcast. This time our guest is Kebba-Omar B. Jagne. He is Team Lead / Head of Experimentation at the Accelarator Lab at the UNDP in The Gambia. He talks about working with unconventional UNDP partners such as start-up and scale ups, elaborates on the challenges of digitally transforming informal markets in The Gambia and gives an insight on what inspires him most.· You can find an article on Exp...
31 Jan 2022
#01: Hélène De Bock on Sustainability
Welcome to the first episode of the GDL Coffee Break Podcast, where we explore the work routines, perspectives on global challenges and sources of inspirations of inspiring guests from the Global Diplomacy Lab network.· Our first guest is Hélène De Bock. She works as a diplomat at the Embassy of Belgium in Berlin and is a former Deputy Director for Human Rights and Democracy at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.· She briefly mentioned their work on the European Strategic Compass, you wi...
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