Advisory Council
Independent Diplomat is guided by an advisory council of experienced former and serving diplomats, international lawyers and leaders of human rights organisations:
Hiruy Amanuel
Regional Director for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue; former Head of Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Capacity Building Program against Terrorism; former Ethiopian Ambassador to Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic; former Head of the Ethiopian Embassy in Paris and Permanent Representative to UNESCO.
Alyson Bailes
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Iceland; former head of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and former British Ambassador to Finland.
A. Whitney Ellsworth
Publishing consultant; former publisher of The New York Review of Books; former member and vice-chairman of Amnesty International USA; former member andvice-chairman of AI International Executive Committee; board member and secretary of Human Rights First and board member The Andrei Sakharov Foundation (USA).
Gareth Evans
President Emeritus of International Crisis Group; Chancellor of the Australian National University; Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne; Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament; author of The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All (Brookings, 2008) and former Foreign Minister of Australia (1988-96).
Stefanie Grant
Visiting research fellow at the University of Sussex; human rights lawyer and consultant; former Director of Research, Amnesty International and former Head of Research and Development Branch, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Edward Mortimer
Senior Vice-President and Chief Programme Officer of the Salzburg Global Seminar; until end-2006 Director of Communications, Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General and former Foreign Affairs Editor, Financial Times.
Eva Nowotny
President of the Austrian UNESCO Commission; former Austrian Ambassador to the United States and former Director General of European Integration and Economic Affairs at the Austrian Foreign Ministry.
Thomas R. Pickering
Vice Chairman of Hills & Company; former Senior Vice President, International Relations of Boeing Company; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; former US Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, Jordan and the United Nation; former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs and Chairman of the American Academy of Diplomacy.
Sir Kieran Prendergast
Former United Nations Under Secretary-General, Head of the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) and the UN Secretary-General's principal adviser on the prevention, containment and resolution of conflict; former British Ambassador to Turkey and former British High Commissioner to Kenya and Zimbabwe.
Francesc Vendrell
Senior Visiting Fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD) and the Frederick H. Schultz Professor of International Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School; former EU Special Representative in Afghanistan; former UN Special Representative in Afghanistan and former Assistant Secretary-General, Department of Political Affairs, UN Secretariat.
Former Members
Former members of ID’s advisory council include Danilo Türk, former Assistant Secretary-General, Department of Political Affairs, UN Secretariat, and now President of Slovenia (a post which required him to resign other affiliations including ID) and Ian Martin former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission in East Timor and former Secretary-General of Amnesty International.