Our Members
DWB's global orientation starts with our diverse membership. With over 40 different nationalities represented, each of our members comes with their own impressive, internationally-focused track-record.
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DWB sees the experience of former diplomats as adding immeasurable value to mediation, negotiation, consensus building and training worldwide. With their experience operating in bilateral and multilateral contexts, many former diplomats are skilled impartial interlocutors who could voluntarily assist in strengthening conflict prevention and resolution capacities, and provide support, training and advice in climate, migration, development, trade, finance and organisational issues.
For an overview of our members' personal experience, check out our membership biographies.
An overview of the collective DWB skillset is available here.
Kees Rade
Chair (Netherlands)
Moustapha Soumaré
Board Member (Mali)
Edward Greene
Board Member (Guyana)
Dominik Bartsch
Communications WG Lead (Germany)
Karel de Beer
Founding Member (Netherlands)
Ertugrul Apakan
Founding Member (Turkey)
Roeland van de Geer
Founding Member (Netherlands)
Gail Mathurin
Founding Member (Jamaica)
Itonde Kakoma
Founding Member (USA)
Ye-Min Wu
Member (Singapore)
Paul Dziatkowiec
Member (Australia)
Martin Sajdik
Member (Austria)
Rebecca Webber Gaudiosi
Member (USA)
Antonio Bernardini
Member (Italy)
Vladimir Zhagora
Member (Belarus)
Marta Ruedas
Member (Spain)
Omar Samad
Member (Afghanistan)
Waldemar Vrey
Member (South Africa)
Bo Goransson
Member (Sweden)
Ranjit Rae
Member (India)
Riyad Insanally
Member (Guyana)
Douglas Scott Proudfoot
Member (Canada)
Miroslaw Zasada
Member (Poland)
João Honwana
Member (Mozambique)
Hüseyin Botsali
Member (Turkey)
Tove Skarstein
Member (Norway)
Renier Nijskens
Member (Belgium)
Ed Kronenburg
Member (Netherlands)
Omar Rifai
Member (Jordan)
Ann Allen-Encontre
Member (British Virgin Islands)
Gürcan Balik
Member (Turkey)
Rebecca Tavares
Vice-Chair (USA)
Abeda Osman
Board Member (Afghanistan)
Clem McCartney
Conflict Resolution WG Lead (Ireland)
Hesham Youssef
Founding Member (Egypt)
Andras Vamos-Goldman
Founding Member (Canada)
Jordan Ryan
Founding Member (USA)
Alan Doss
Founding Member (UK)
Gene Cretz
Founding Member (USA)
Roberta Clarke
Member (Trinidad & Tobago)
Daniel Morrison
Member (USA)
Dinesh Bhattarai
Member (Nepal)
Marcia Covarrubias
Member (Chile)
Maged Abdelaziz
Member (Egypt)
Martin Kobler
Member (Germany)
Joanne Sandler
Member (USA)
Adamou Seydou
Member (Niger)
Janan Mosazai
Member (Afghanistan)
Frederic Gateretse-Ngoga
Member (Burundi)
Sheila Camerer
Member (South Africa)
Jose Luis Bernal Rodriguez
Member (Mexico)
Mohammed Loulichki
Member (Morocco)
Won Soo Kim
Member (Republic of Korea)
Fernando Petrella
Member (Argentina)
Carlos Portales
Member (Chile)
Amal Mourad
Member (Egypt)
Gautam Mukhopadhaya
Member (India)
Osnat Lubrani
Member (Israel)
Elisabeth Pape
Member (Germany)
Giovanni di Cola
Member (Italy)
Jean-François Cautain
Member (France)
Robert Ngangue
Member (Cameroon)
Zineb Benjelloun
Treasurer (Morocco)
Jorge Heine
Board Member (Chile)
Thierry Bechet
Training WG Lead (Belgium)
Eric Kimani
Founding Member (Kenya)
Gay Rosenblum-Kumar
Founding Member (USA)
Abdul Hannan
Founding Member (Bangladesh)
Farid Zarif
Founding Member (Afghanistan)
Richard Blewitt
Founding Member (UK)
Maria Otero
Member (USA)
Jigmi Thinley
Member (Bhutan)
Donald Booth
Member (USA)
Ghassan Salamé
Member (Lebanon)
Nicholas Kay
Member (UK)
Tekeda Alemu
Member (Ethiopia)
Mohamed Salia Sokona
Member (Mali)
Kerstin Leitner
Member (Germany)
Nina Lahoud
Member (USA)
Stephanie Williams
Member (USA)
Martha Barcena-Coqui
Member (Mexico)
Martha Ardila
Member (Colombia)
Omer Dahab F. Mohamed
Member (Sudan)
Antonio Armellini
Member (Italy)
Fernando Sandoval Flores
Member (Mexico)
Paul Egunsola
Member (Nigeria)
Carmenza Jaramillo
Member (Colombia)
Babatunde Ajisomo
Member (Nigeria)
Cecilia McGill
Member (Liberia)
Enayatullah Nabiel
Member (Afghanistan)
Tuncay Babali
Member (Turkey)
William (Bill) Crosbie
Member (Canada)
Nicholas Coppel
Member (Australia)
Carlos Appelgren
Member (Chile)
Deepak Bhojwani
Member (India)
Waldemar Coutts
Member (Chile)
Diego Gomez Pickering
Member (Mexico)
Euripides Evriviades
Member (Cyprus)
Interested in membership?
Check out our membership procedures here.
As indicated, please approach one of our members through your personal connections, or alternatively follow the submission guidelines and send the request to our inbox at info @ diplowb.org.
