Ali Fisher
Blog Contributor
Director of Mappa Mundi Consulting
 
Ali is Director of Mappa Mundi Consulting. He was previously director of Counterpoint, the British Council's research think-tank (2006-7), and lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter.

He has a particular research interest in online engagement and regularly advises Governments and NGO on best practice in this field. Recent academic publications include Options for Influence: Global campaigns of persuasion in the new worlds of public diplomacy and “Music for the Jilted Generation: Open-Source Public Diplomacy” Hague Journal of Diplomacy (2008).

Ali received his PhD from the University of Birmingham, where he studied US cultural operations during the cold war and is currently editing Projection and Power: The Trials of Public Diplomacy with Scott Lucas.