Who We Are

WHAT IS THE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY COLLABORATIVE?

The Public Diplomacy Collaborative (PD Collaborative) brings together public diplomacy practitioners and supporters across sectors, disciplines, and national boundaries. We are a lab for enhancing public diplomacy effectiveness and engaging in purposeful global discussion.


The PD Collaborative is an independent, non-government-sponsored program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Drawing experts from the academic, corporate, diplomatic, developmental, cultural, military, religious, and media sectors, we foster the exchange of public-opinion analyses, regional expertise, measurement tools, and case studies on the strategy and tactics of public diplomacy. We promote discussion, mentoring, training, scholarship, and publication in the field of public diplomacy with the aims of expanding and improving public diplomacy practice and ultimately promoting democratic governance.

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Team


Don Baer

  • Worldwide Vice Chairman, Burson-Marsteller
  • Former Senior Executive Vice President, Discovery Communications


Matthew Baum (Faculty Chair)

  • Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications, Harvard Kennedy School(HKS)


Jeeyang Rhee Baum

  • Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
  • Fellow, Ash Institute, HKS


Rasmus Bertelsen

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies


Beth Brooke

  • Global Vice Chair, Ernst & Young


Anna Burger

  • International Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU


R. Nicholas Burns

  • Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, HKS
  • Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and Greece


Robert T. Coonrod

  • Chief Operating Officer, Meridian International Center
  • President of the Board, Public Diplomacy Council
  • Former President and CEO, Corporation for Public Broadcasting


Rudy deLeon

  • Senior Vice President, National Security and International Affairs, CAP
  • Former Deputy Secretary of Defense


Thomas Donohue

  • President and CEO, US Chamber of Commerce


Daniel Drezner

  • Professor of International Politics, Tufts Fletcher School


Charles Eassa

  • Chief, Information Operations and Space Division, EUCOM


David Eilenberg

  • Programming Director, Mark Burnett Productions
  • Producer/Director, On Common Ground


Kimberly Marteau Emerson

  • Former Director, Office of Public Liaison, United States Information Agency
  • Vice President Motion Pictures, Savoy Pictures Entertainment


Mary Farrell

  • Former Chief Investment Strategist, UBS Wealth Management USA


Ed Feulner

  • President, The Heritage Foundation


Mary Foerster

  • Vice President, Business Support, Communications and Community Affairs, Integrated Defense Systems, The Boeing Company


Claude Fontheim

  • President, Fontheim International
  • Founder and Chairman, TASC


Alex Franklin

  • Senior Vice President, Development and Production, Pangea Pictures


Edie Fraser

  • Managing Director, Diversified Search Odgers Berndtson
  • Board of Directors, US World Affairs Council


Samuel P. Fried

  • Executive Vice President, Law, Policy, and Governance, Limited Brands


Al From

  • Principal, The From Company
  • Founder and former President, Democratic Leadership Council


Harriet Fulbright

  • President, the J. William and Harriet Fulbright Center


Nathan Gardels

  • Editor-in-chief, New Perspectives Quarterly
  • Editor-in-chief, Global Services, Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media


Helene Gayle

  • President and CEO, CARE


Robbie Graham

  • Associate Director, The Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy
  • Special Assistant for Public Affairs, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects


Tammy Haddad

  • President, Haddad Media
  • Former Senior Producer, Hardball; The Larry King Show


Chuck Hagel

  • Chairman, Atlantic Council of the United States
  • Former United States Senator (R-NE)


Gary Hart

  • Former United States Senator (D-CO)


Heather Hurlburt

  • Executive Director, National Security Network


Al Kapoor

  • President, Millennium Ventures
  • President, TiE (Boston), 2009-10


Paul Kern

  • Former Commander, US Army Materiel Command


Rick Kessler

  • Chief of Staff, House Foreign Affairs Committee


Tom Korologos

  • Former US Ambassador to Belgium
  • Former Chairman, US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
  • Strategic Advisor, DLA Piper LLC


Barbara Lawton

  • Lieutenant-Governor, State of Wisconsin
  • Chairman, National Lieutenant-Governors Association


Margo Lion

  • Broadway producer (Hairspray; Angels in America)


James Loy

  • Former Commandant, US Coast Guard
  • Former Deputy Secretary, Department of Homeland Security


Mark Maloney

  • President, Boston World Partnerships, Inc.


Tarek Massoud

  • Assistant Professor of Public Policy, HKS


Mike Medavoy

  • Chairman and co-founder, Phoenix Pictures
  • Co-founder, Orion Pictures
  • Former Chairman, TriStar Pictures


Constance Milstein

  • Principal, Ogden CAP Properties, LLC


Norman Mineta

  • Former US Secretary of Transportation


David Moss

  • John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
  • Unit Head, Business, Government and the International Economy


Sherry Mueller

  • President, National Council of International Visitors


John Nagl

  • President, Center for a New American Security


Jane Nelson

  • Senior Fellow and Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS

Joseph Nye (Senior Faculty Affiliate)

  • University Distinguished Service Professor and Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, Harvard University
  • Former Dean, HKS
  • Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Former Deputy Under Secretary of State for Science & Technology


Ray Sheppach

  • Executive Director, National Governors Association


Michèle Stanners

  • Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affair, FAS
  • Executive VP, International Women's Forum, Canada


Nikki Stern

  • Former Executive Director, Families of September 11


Tom Oliphant

  • Columnist, Boston Globe


Meghan O'Sullivan

  • Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, HKS


Holly Page

  • Former Executive Vice President, Democratic Leadership Council


Richard Parker

  • Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
  • Senior Fellow, Shorenstein Center, HKS


Erica Payne

  • President, Tesseract


Tom Pickering

  • Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Former US Ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, El Salvador, Jordan, and the UN

Todd Pittinsky

  • Associate Professor of Public Policy, HKS
  • Director of Research, Center for Public Leadership, HKS
  • Author of "Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference"


Joseph Ralston

  • Former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO
  • Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

William Rugh

  • Edward R. Murrow Professor of Public Diplomacy, Tufts Fletcher School
  • Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and the United Arab Emirates


Bernard Simonin

  • Associate Professor of Marketing and International Business, Tufts Fletcher School


Dorris Sommer

  • Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)
  • Director, Cultural Agents Initiative


Jessica Stern

  • Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School
  • Academic Director of the Program on Terrorism and the Law


Rory Stewart

  • Ryan Family Professor of the Practice of Human Rights, HKS
  • Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy


Monica Duffy Toft

  • Associate Professor of Public Policy, HKS
  • Director of the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs


Bob Tyrer

  • Former Chief of Staff, Department of Defense
  • President, The Cohen Group


Michael Waldman

  • President, The Brennan Center for Justice


Stephen Walt

  • Belfer Professor of International Relations, HKS


Lynne Wasserman

  • Vice President, The Wasserman Foundation
  • Co-founder, UCLA Film and Television Archives


Jed Willard (Director)

  • Founding Partner, LanguageCorps
  • Founder, Public Diplomacy Professional Interest Council, HKS


Douglas Wilson (Board Chair)

  • Executive Vice President, The Howard Gilman Foundation
  • Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Public Affairs
  • Former Director of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, US Information Agency


Frank Wisner

  • Former US Ambassador to India and Egypt
  • Former Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs


Husam Zomlot

  • Dubai Fellow, Belfer Center, HKS
  • Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, FAS