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Ambassador Androulla Kaminara

Distinguished Diplomat-in-Residence (2023-24)

Ambassador Androulla Kaminara is a Non-resident Fellow and served as the inaugural Distinguished Diplomat-in-Residence at Georgetown University in Qatar.

Ambassador Kaminara has 40 years of exceptional record of leadership in public service, management, and in diplomacy. She has served as the first female European Union (EU) Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Breaking the glass ceiling and working in multi-cultural, multi-national, and multi-disciplinary fields, have been her trademark throughout her career.

She has served as Director of Humanitarian Aid Operations for Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ECHO). Previously she was the Director for the Quality of Programs and Projects globally of EU International Cooperation and Development with an annual budget of ten billion euros.

Always interested in the link between academia and practice, she has served as the EU Fellow to St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, and as a research associate at King’s College, London focusing on EU policies and the geopolitics of energy.

Earlier in her career, she served as Head of the European Commission Representation to Cyprus and as Head of the Unit for the coordination of development cooperation programs in forty-four West and Central African and Caribbean countries. She has also served as a cabinet member of two European Commission Commissioners.

She has extensive experience in the formulation of policy: e.g. information society and technology, development cooperation, trade, humanitarian aid, research, foreign affairs and diplomacy, energy policy, SME promotion, gender inclusion, and conflict resolution. She has represented the EU in numerous high-level international fora and multilateral negotiations and in numerous public speaking engagements. She has traveled to over 120 countries.

Before joining the EU, she was a Special Adviser to two government ministers in Greece and the Managing Director of a private consultancy firm.

Ambassador Kaminara has a B.Sc (Hons.) in Geology and Physics, from King’s College London, a MSc in Management Science from Imperial College, and a Maîtrise in International Politics from ULB University of Brussels.

She is the recipient of the Global Ambassador Award in 2021 and of the International Peace Award for her work on interfaith harmony.

Ambassador Kaminara is an associate editor of the “Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Transactions on Technology and Society Journal.”

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