In the third installment of the Future of Cultural Diplomacy Series, UNESCO’s Director-General Audrey Azoulay will offer her unique perspective on cultural diplomacy as the leader of one of the world’s largest multilateral agencies focused on education, science, and cultural issues. Director-General Azoulay will discuss UNESCO’s current priorities, including education, culture, gender equality, and freedom of expression, and how UNESCO has provided multilateral approaches to crises stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic. Carla Dirlikov Canales, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow and Arts Envoy for the U.S. Department of State, and Alison Hillegeist, Deputy Director for the Future of Diplomacy Project will moderate this discussion.

The Future of Cultural Diplomacy seminar series explores how to harness culture to advance foreign policy objectives.  This series aims to address an important but often overlooked angle in current foreign policy debates, as well as add a valuable dimension to co-curricular discussions in international affairs at Harvard. This series was conceptualized by Carla Dirlikov Canales, an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Department of State, a world-renowned opera singer, and current Fellow at Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative.