The third annual Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy took place July 20 through August 1, 2008.

The participants in the Summer Institute 2008 were:

Taro Araki
Deputy Director, Iron and Steel Industrial Policy Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, Japan

Fleur Cowan
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State

Ingrid de Beer
Public Diplomacy Officer, Royal Netherlands Embassy, USA

James Gregory
Major/Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Army

Amy Hochadel
Associate Director of Diversity, Cleveland Clinic

Kristin Kane
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State - U.S. Embassy Maputo, Mozambique

Kristen Knutson
Public Information and Donor Liaison Officer, OCHA Uganda

Simone Kreutzer
Consul for Press and Cultural Affairs, Netherlands Consulate General NYC

Sotirios Krystallis
Press Attache, Secretariat General of Information of the Hellenic Republic

Ta-Sheng Kuan
Secretary on Home Assignment, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Taiwan

Habib Kurwa
Former Chairman of UK Developing Programmes, Aga Khan Health Board

Che-Jung Liu
Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Taiwan

Meili Lu
Senior Secretary, Government Information Office, Taiwan

Barbora Maronkova
Programme Coordinator; Information Officer, NATO HQ

Joseph Mellott
Special Advisor, U.S. Department of State, Office of War Crimes Issues

William Ogborn
Public Diplomacy Officer for the Provincial Reconstruction Team for Muthanna, Iraq

Fatou Sall
Consul General, Consulate General of Senegal, Houston

Sandra Schulberg
President, Schulberg Productions, Inc

Christina Tribble
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State

Floris van Hovell
Head of Public Diplomacy, Press and Culture Department, Netherlands Embassy in Washington DC

Timothy Wall
Communications contact on Economics and Economic Development United Nations Department of Public Information

The second annual Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy took place June 17 -29, 2007.

The participants in the Summer Institute 2007 were:

Aileen Adams
Director, Arts & Culture Outreach, University of Southern California

Jose Manuel Bassat
Senior Communications Officer, World Bank, Washington D.C.

Abdul Muain bin Abdul Hamid
State Director, National Security Division, Malaysia

Zahari bin Alias
Head of Assistant Director’s Office, National Security Division, Malaysia

Hsiu-Chen Chang
Section Chief, Government Information Office, Taiwan

Soung-ah Choi
Associate Spokesperson, Secretary-General, United Nations, New York

Annita Freeman
Director, Liberian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Tori Horton
Assistant Director, Budget & Administration, USC Center on Public Diplomacy

Christophe Illemassene
Communications, Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations in DRC

Leonardo Mazzei
Communications Officer, World Bank, Washington D.C.

Salmaya Rahayu Salleh
Second Secretary, Embassy of Brunei, Washington, D.C.

George Scholz
Regional English Language Officer, U.S. Embassy Cairo, Egypt

Sompop Sermswatsri
Consul, Royal Thai Consulate in L.A.

Elisabeth van Overveld
Senior Communication Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands

Joe Wang
Senior Consul, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in L.A.

The first annual Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy took place July 9-21, 2006.

Isabelle Broyer
Chief, Guided Tours Unit, Department of Public Information, United Nations

Stephanie Bunker
Spokesperson, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations

Panurit Chamrasromran
Diplomatic Officer, Thai Ministry of Affairs

Jorge Ignacio Mora Fernandez
Ph.D, Interactive Media Researcher UCM & USC MFA student

Tyrone Marc Gunnie
Second Secretary, South African Embassy

Patrick Hayford
Director, Office of the Special Adviser on Africa, United Nations

Alison Earle Healy
Founder and Director, Pacific Rim Foundation

Theeta Hotrakitya
Diplomatic Official, Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Wang Jian
Project Administrator, China International Culture Exchange Center

Pamela S. Meidell
Director, The Atomic Mirror

Melissa Powell
Project Manager, UN Global Compact, United Nations

Nikolai Rogosaroff
Associate Expert, Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations

Horst Rutsch
Writer and Editor, UN Chronicle, Department of Public Information, United Nations

Patricia Seghers
Briefing Assistant, Guided Tours Unit, Department of Public Information, United Nations

Raymond Sommereyns
Director, Outreach Division, Department of Public Information, United Nations

Liang Yu
Assistant to the Secretary General, China International Culture Exchange Center

The Summer Institute 2006 was a great success. Based on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 the highest, students gave the program an overall rating of 4.79.

Participants particularly praised the simulated group exercises, the relevance of the topics covered and how the course was structured to achieve clearly-stated goals. Delegates also extolled the camaraderie they experienced among course participants and professors.