Ellen Huijgh conducts research on public diplomacy and its domestic dimension at different levels of government across the globe through the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ in The Hague and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). Ellen was a Resident Visiting Fellow at Carleton University in Ottawa (Canada), where she conducted research and lived for five years (2007-2012) and at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta (Indonesia) in 2012. She is published in various English and French academic journals and contributed to book chapters, including as lead author of an annotated bibliography of the public diplomacy literature for Oxford University Press Bibliographies (2013), and as guest editor of a special issue of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy on the domestic dimension of public diplomacy (2012), and has been co-editor of the Clingendael Discussion Papers in Diplomacy since 2008. Ellen also worked at the Communication Department of the Free University of Brussels for several years and has provided advice, training, and assistance to several national and sub-national governments in establishing and implementing their public diplomacy strategy at home and abroad.

Ellen’s research project for CPD is titled The Public Diplomacy of Emerging Powers: Insights from Indonesia and Turkey. She is eager to hear from students, scholars and policymakers in any discipline to share and exchange thoughts on this topic throughout the research process.