Moving on - مع السلامة – Ma’a as-salama !
After six great years spent explaining NATO, it's time to move on. It has not been easy to change course, but here's me sharing three honest thank you's.
Having had the opportunity to put skills to service is the dream of so many. I want to thank the three Assistant Secretaries Generals under whom I served, Tacan ILDEM, Baiba Braze and Marie-Doha Besancenot who trusted me with complex communications projects, nudging me always to aim higher.
Thanks also to the diplomats, professors, industry executives, young researchers and more whom I engaged across 3 NATO Summits in Washington (2024), Vilnius (2023) and Madrid (2022), and in events in HQ, in Bahrein, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Italy, Kuwait, Qatar, Romania, the United States and online! I learned from you and hope that through our exchanges, you gained a clear sense of consensus-building at NATO.
And finally a word of thanks, harder perhaps but genuine also, to NATO's Secretary General Rutte and his team for having been decisive when the need to reform Public Diplomacy @ NATO became clear. The Organization is articulating a new approach to engage with international security experts. That is good news. Dialogue is for tense and turbulent times. It must adapt continuously.
I'm excited about my new job at NATO and Day 1 is just around the corner... Stay tuned!
Kuwait University, Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service Qatar University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sciences Po Aix, IISS, THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES, Gulf International Forum, Gulf Research Center - مركز الخليج للأبحاث, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Middle East Council on Global Affairs مجلس الشرق الأوسط للشؤون الدولية, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, NATO Strategic Direction-South Hub, NATO Defense College, Joaan Bin Jassim Academy for Defence Studies, NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT), Hudson Institute, CEPA, GLOBSEC, Munich Security Conference, Atlantic Council, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Center for a New American Security (CNAS), Bulgarian Diplomatic Institute, Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU), Premier Cercle ©, Policy Insights Forum, World Affairs Councils of America, University of South Florida, Elcano Royal Institute, Universidad Europea, IEGA - Institut d'études de géopolitique appliquée, Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN), Institut FMES, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, NATO Field School...
