The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was established in 2003 as a partnership between the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. It is a joint scholarly research, policy analysis and professional training organization dedicated to furthering the study and practice of public diplomacy.
Since its inception, the Center has become an ambitious and productive leader in the public diplomacy research and scholarship community. The Center has benefited from unique international support from the academic, corporate, governmental and public policy communities. And it has become the definitive go-to destination for practitioners and international leaders in public diplomacy, while pursuing an innovative and cutting-edge research agenda.
In 2008, USC received one of four inaugural Benjamin Franklin Awards for Public Diplomacy from the U.S. State Department in recognition of the university's teaching, training and research in public diplomacy.
CPD Mission Statement
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy seeks to lead a new debate about the field of public diplomacy by providing innovative scholarly research, policy analysis and professional training on public diplomacy worldwide and thereby contribute to dialogue and cooperation between diverse global socio-political entities and foreign publics.
Founding Deans:
Geoffrey Cowan (Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication)
Joseph Aoun (Dean of the USC College of Letters Arts and Sciences)
Founding Faculty Group at USC:
Laurie Brand
Manuel Castells
Janet Fulk
Thomas Goodnight
Larry Gross
Martin Kaplan
Steven Lamy
Geoffrey Wiseman
Founding Advisory Board:
William H. Luers (Chair), President & CEO, United Nations Association of the USA
Rebecka Belldegrun, President and CEO, BellCo Capital, LLC
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute
Hodding Carter, III, University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Henry Catto, Former Ambassador to the U.K. and El Salvador
Kimberly Marteau Emerson, Former Director, Office of Public Liaison at the USIA
Bruce Gelb, President, Council of American Ambassadors
Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Betty King, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
Kevin Klose, President and CEO, National Public Radio (NPR)
Gary E. Knell, President and CEO, Sesame Workshop
Markos Kounalakis, President and Publisher, Washington Monthly magazine
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Prof, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Ponchitta Pierce, Journalist, producer
Keith Reinhard, Chairman, DDB Worldwide
Elizabeth Rohatyn, Founder and Chairperson, Teaching Matters, Inc.
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