Affiliate Professor

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Len Ishmael is an affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.

She is a Senior Fellow of the Policy Center for the New South, Distinguished Visiting Scholar of the German Marshall Fund of the United States of America and a Senior Fellow of the European Centre for Development Policy Management. She is the Global Affairs Advisor and Head of the Expert Groups of the Brussels Diplomatic Academy of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is the former Ambassador of the Eastern Caribbean States to the Kingdom of Belgium and European Union, past President of the 79-member African, Caribbean & Pacific Committee of Ambassadors in Brussels and Commissioner of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19’s Regional Task Force for Latin America. Former roles include that of Director of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean Regional Headquarters; Director General of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, Alternate Governor of the World Bank and Director of the Leadership for Environment & Development Foundation (New York).
She is a Fletcher School Tufts University GMAP Endowment Fellow and member of The Fletcher School Advisory Council. Her academic credentials include a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School Tufts University, an MA in Urban Planning from the City University of New York and a BA, Economics and Geography from the University of the West Indies.

She the author of several publications on the New South/Global South, Geopolitics, Africa-EU relations, China, and the Trans-Atlantic/Wider Atlantic relationship. Her most recent book as editor and co-author entitled: Aftermath of War in Ukraine, the West vs the Global South? was published by the PCNS in 2023. Other recent publications include Winds of Change: The Brics Club of Nations and Dawn of the New South published by TRENDS, Abu Dhabi in September 2024 and The New South: Breaking with the Past. West-South Engagement in a Changing World published by IDOS, Bonn July 2024.
 

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For the academic year 2022-2023

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