2023-2024 Harvard Weatherhead Foreign Policy Fellow, Thematic Expert, Academic Researcher. Canadian public servant. Previously Senior Advisor in Climate Security working on NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate Security (Global Affairs Canada) and Senior Advisor Climate Security CGIAR Climate Security. PhD Candidate (Utrecht U.) Adjunct Professor. 25 years of public administration and international experience covering the UN, NATO, World Bank, Canadian diplomacy, and private sector ventures.
Diego has worked globally on diplomatic/political and economic matters, climate change-conflict/adaptation policy, as well as institutional/social reconstruction, civil-military coordination, and humanitarian issues. He has deployed to Afghanistan, Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Indonesia (Banda Aceh), Iraq, Central African Republic, Jordan, Kosovo, Liberia, Pakistan, and Timor Leste to name some of his multiple field missions. He previously served as Senior Peacekeeping Officer (2006) and as Senior Advisor on Mediation, Negotiation and Peace processes (2019) at Global Affairs Canada. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Raoul-Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at the Université de Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, and the Făgăraș Research Institute, Romania. Diego has lectured in humanitarian action, governance design, the humanitarian-development nexus, reconciliation/mediation, conflict and climate change, post-conflict recovery, political economy, complexity/economic geography, and urban conflict at universities in Canada and abroad. He also works on co-creation and human design methodologies. Adjunct Professor (Canada) Master of Public Policy, Adler University, Bishop’s University, Ecole National d’Administration Publique (Quebec), and (France)Ecole 3A, Lyon. Collaborator, Network for Strategic Analysis (NSA), Canada
Expertise
- Climate change
- Peace & Security
- fragility and conflict prevention
Selected Publications
- Läderach, P., Ramirez-Villegas, J., Prager, S. D., Osorio, D., Krendelsberger, A., Zougmoré, R. B., Charbonneau, B., Van Dijk, H., Madurga-Lopez, I., & Pacillo, G. (2021). The importance of food systems in a climate crisis for peace and security in the Sahel. International Review of the Red Cross, 918, 995–1028. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1816383122000170
- Liebig, Theresa, Grazia Pacillo, Diego Osorio, Peter Läderach, Food systems science for peace and security: Is research for development key for achieving systematic change?, World Development Sustainability,Volume 1,2022,100004,ISSN 2772-655X https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2022.100004
- Läderach, P., Pacillo, G., Thornton, P., Osorio, D., & Smith, D. (2021). Food systems for peace and security in a climate crisis. The Lancet Planetary Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00056-5
- Laderach P, Pacillo G, Osorio D. 2020. CGIAR’s critical contribution to SDG16 – a universe of untapped impacts, partnerships and resources. CGIAR Focus Climate Security Info Note. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110847
- Nguyen N, Osorio D, Läderach P. 2020. The Role of Climate and Food Systems Science in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding. CGIAR Focus Climate Security Webinar Series. Policy Note No.1: CGIAR Research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110941
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