Thematic Expert, Faculty, Academic Researcher. Most recently Senior Advisor in Climate Security and launching of NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate Security (Global Affairs Canada) and previously Senior Advisor Climate Security CGIAR Climate Security. PhD Candidate (Utrecht U.) Canadian Diplomat, 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, 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 of both 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, Master of Public Policy, Adler University, Canada, and Ecole 3A, Lyon, France.
Education:
2018-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.
E-mail: d.osorio@uu.nl / diego@osorio.ca / dosorio@adler.edu
PhD Student, University of Utrecht
BMW Foundation Presents Twenty Thirty Podcast: On Purpose with Diego Osorio
Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies: Fellows
McGill News (UN Mediator, not taking peace for granted) 2011
Harvard Alumni Magazine (2011). Working for the Haiti Reconstruction Fund (p.3)
Associate Fellow: Chair Raoul Dandurand, Universite de Quebec a Montreal