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The BDA Currents: Where Diplomacy Meets Business, is the Brussels Diplomatic Academy’s annual report covering the wider geopolitical and other factors influencing and affecting the world of diplomacy, international relations and global business. The journal focuses on issues of topical interest around the centers of global power, influence and importance, including the continents of Europe and Africa, the Middle East, China, India & Asia, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States and the trans-Atlantic relationship between the United States of America and Europe. Issues are discussed through the multi-faceted lens of diplomacy, geopolitics, global power, international relations, foreign policy, global finance, business and environmental sustainability. Sitting at the heart of the European Union, the Brussels Diplomatic Academy (BDA) provides academic programs and professional services tailored to the needs of diplomats and business persons in Belgium and further afield, and encompasses a wide range of geographic & thematic areas of expertise.
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Editor, Ambassador, Dr. Len Ishmael is the Global Affairs Advisor of the Brussels Diplomatic Academy and visiting Professor of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Mohammed VI University, Morocco. She is a Senior Fellow of the Policy Center for the New South and Senior Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Scholar of the German Marshall Fund of the United States of America (GMF). She is a Commissioner on the Lancet’s Commission’s Regional Task Force for Latin America on COVID-19. She is the author of several publications and articles on Geopolitics, China, the trans-Atlantic relationship and EU-Africa relations.
