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Independent Diplomat is advised by a board composed of senior and experienced figures from the diplomatic world.

Alyson Bailes, Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Iceland; former head of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and former British Ambassador to Finland.

Professor Chaloka Beyani, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and International Law, London School of Economics (LSE). Professor Beyani's interests include the UN and regional bodies, human rights, democracy, constitutions and territorial disputes.

A. Whitney Ellsworth, publishing consultant, currently board member and secretary, Human Rights First and board member, The Andrei Sakharov Foundation (USA); former publisher of The New York Review of Books; former board member and chairman, Amnesty International USA; former vice-chairman of Amnesty International’s Executive Committee.

Stefanie Grant, human rights lawyer and consultant, former Director of Research, Amnesty International, former Head of Research and Development Branch, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Ian Martin, currently Personal Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Nepal for support to the Peace Process; former Vice-President of the International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission in East Timor, former Secretary-General of Amnesty International. 

Edward Mortimer, former foreign affairs editor of the Financial Times (1987-98), recently Chief Speechwriter and Director of Communications for the UN Secretary-General (1998-2006); currently Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer at the Salzburg Seminar. Also the author of several books including Faith and Power: the Politics of Islam (1982), The World That FDR Built (1989), and monographs including European Security After the Cold War (Adelphi Paper, 1992) and A Few Words on Intervention (1995); and co-editor of People, Nation and State: the Meaning of Ethnicity and Nationalism (1999).

Sir Kieran Prendergast, former Under Secretary-General and Head of the Department of Political Affairs, United Nations 1997-2005, during which period he was the Secretary-General's principal adviser on the prevention, containment and resolution of conflict and dealt with a wide range of crises; also former British Ambassador to Turkey and British High Commissioner to Kenya and Zimbabwe.

Francesc Vendrell, EU Special Representative in Afghanistan, former UN Special Representative in Afghanistan and Assistant Secretary-General, Department of Political Affairs, UN Secretariat.

Former board members
Former members of the advisory board include Danilo Türk, former Assistant Secretary-General at the Department of Political Affairs at the United Nations and Professor in human rights and international law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; now (since 23 December 2007) President of the Republic of Slovenia.

Partners
Independent Diplomat works with a broad network of individuals and organisations, including law firms, commercial consultancies and universities, who support and assist our work on a pro bono basis.