A range of international experts participate to support the Intercultural cities programme.

Their tasks include, inter alia:

  • Drafting analytical reports on cities’ results on the Intercultural cities’ index;
  • Participating in monitoring visits and preparing reports such as the Intercultural profiles of member cities;
  • Providing advice to cities in the context of the preparation of their intercultural strategies;
  • Preparing thematic events and drafting reports and policy briefs based on the results;
  • Providing advice and training in specific areas (eg myth-busting, intercultural competence, political communication);
  • Providing policy advice in specific areas (education, culture, housing, economic development, social services, urban planning, impact evaluation etc.);
  • Managing national intercultural cities networks;
  • Designing and managing specific projects (eg. awareness campaigns).
ICC experts

Back KIHLGREN GRANDI Lorenzo

Director, City Diplomacy Lab
KIHLGREN GRANDI Lorenzo

Dr. Kihlgren Grandi is the founder and director of the City Diplomacy Lab at Columbia Global Centers | Paris and a lecturer in City Diplomacy at Columbia Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE | Paris), Sciences Po, and École Polytechnique.

Alongside his academic work, Lorenzo actively participates in expanding the practice of city diplomacy, having advised numerous municipalities, city networks, and international organizations.

Author of City Diplomacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), he holds a dual PhD in Political Theory from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS).

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