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Diego Osorio

Harvard Weatherhead Foreign Policy Fellow, Thematic Expert, Academic Researcher. Canadian public servant. Previously Senior Advisor in Climate Security working on NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate Security (Global Affairs Canada) and Senior Advisor Climate Security CGIAR Climate Security. PhD Candidate (Utrecht U.) Adjunct Professor. 25 years of public administration and international experience covering the UN, NATO, World Bank, Canadian diplomacy, and private sector ventures. Diego has worked globally on diplomatic, political, and economic matters, climate change-conflict/adaptation policy, as well as institutional/social reconstruction, civil-military coordination, and humanitarian issues. He has deployed to Afghanistan, Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Indonesia (Banda Aceh), Iraq, the Central African Republic, Jordan, Kosovo, Liberia, Pakistan, and Timor-Leste, to name some of his multiple field missions. He previously served as Senior Peacekeeping Officer (2006) and as Senior Advisor on Mediation, Negotiation, and Peace Processes (2019) at Global Affairs Canada. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Raoul-Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at the Université de Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, and the Făgăraș Research Institute, Romania. Diego has lectured in humanitarian action, governance design, the humanitarian-development nexus, reconciliation/mediation, conflict and climate change, post-conflict recovery, political economy, complexity/economic geography, and urban conflict at universities in Canada and abroad. He also works on co-creation and human design methodologies. Adjunct Professor (Canada) Master of Public Policy, Adler University, Bishop’s University, Ecole National d’Administration Publique (Quebec), and (France) Ecole 3A, Lyon. Collaborator, Network for Strategic Analysis (NSA), Canada

Education

2019-Present PhD Candidate, University of Utrecht (Complexity and Institutional Design applied to climate security) 2009 MC/MPA (Master Public Administration) Harvard KSG; 2001 Master’s in International Trade Law and Economics (MILE), U.Bern /Fribourg/Neuchâtel (World Trade Institute); 1996, McGill University, BA, Political Science/History.

Labs

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EAC
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Topics

Sustainability and Climate Protection, Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Energy and Natural Resources

Sectors

Private

Origin

North America

Residence

North America

Further Engagements

Elected Advisory Council
Every year, two GDL members of the Advisory Council are elected online by members. All four elected members of the Advisory Council work on a pro bono basis.

More about Diego Osorio

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A Historic Deal to Save Biodiversity… And the Planet?

At COP15, a historic deal to preserve biodiversity was finally signed into action – yet it barely received any attention in the media. Members Vivian Valencia and Diego Osorio explore the reasons why.

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Peacebuilding That Ignores the Environment Is Not Complete

Climate and conflict are interrelated. GDL member Diego Osorio has been thinking about “Adaptive Peacebuilding.” He writes about how to address climate-related security risks through repeated experimentation and learning, and how real-time data and analytics can help.

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Climate Change and Security: 3 Key Insights

GDL members Sabrina Schulz and Diego Osorio discuss climate change as a tightly linked security issues. As conflicts become increasingly threaded to climate and environmental degradation, only global, inter-insitutional, multidisciplinary answers can bring resilience and peace.

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