Dr. Dianna Wuagneux's expertise and extensive practical experience includes the creation/ implementation of innovative projects, programs, and policies that promote peace, cross sectoral social partnership, resilient economies, healthy environments, and improved quality of life.

Security Clearance: Secret

Citizenship:US, EU citizenship eligible

Languages: Native English speaker. Language training: Russian, French


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Dr. Dianna Wuagneux holds an earned doctorate in international business with a master's in cultural studies. She has been a college professor (cultural anthropology, international relations, conflict resolution), and has more than 15 years experience in policy, economic, and environmental consulting internationally for governments, corporations and international humanitarian agencies in 19 countries.

Throughout 2006 and early 2007, Dr. Wuagneux served as the Senior Policy Advisor for reconstruction and development in Afghanistan for both the Department of State and Department of Defense, overseeing decisions translating to over $98 million per quarter, in addition to coordinating international cooperation necessary to further the Afghan mission. Prior to accepting that post, she administered a 23 million dollar post-conflict social/economic development project in the Balkans, designed to improve regional relations and mitigate conflict.

Dr. Wuagneux has a seat on the United Nations "Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues;” has been awarded the NATO Medal for her service to the International Security Assistance Force, and has been called upon to provide written opinions to Congress and the DOD regarding the surge in Iraq, as well as interagency (DOS/DOD) relations in North Africa and the Middle East. She is published in journals such as Leverage, the Systems’ Thinker, and Cultural Survival Quarterly. She is regularly interviewed as an "expert" in behavioral economics in newspapers/periodicals, and is frequently asked to address field practitioners, academics, and assorted policymakers at international conferences and symposia. In 2007, Dr. Wuagneux was added to the Harvard University Central Eurasia Experts Directory

PROFESSOR/VISITING LECTURER/INTERIM ADMINISTRATOR


  • Professor of Cultural Anthropology
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Business Ethics
  • Social Issues
VISITING LECTURER
  • International relations
  • International business
  • International conflict resolution
  • Corporate citizenship
  • Global partnerships
  • Peace-building

Periodic administrative duties: curriculum development, program and facilitator assessment. City College, FAPSC, Kaiser College, Florida USA; Green Mountain College, NSHU, College of St. Joseph; Johnson State University, Norwich University, Vermont USA (has periodically served as visiting lecturer in 8 states & abroad).

Conducted/developed training with US military, the Maritime Resources Group, Premier Innovation Institute, Bank of Beijing, Canarie, Inc., US Department of State, US Department of Labor, etc.


Recent Publications Include*


WHITE PAPERS
  • Progress Impeded: The Middle East Maelstrom, (2006)
  • Dubious Intentions: Democracy and Governance Based International Aid, (2006)
  • Central Asia 2007, Potential for Progress, (2007)
  • Undermining Social Evolution: The International Aid Impact, (2007)
  • Uneasy Alliances: The US Military and Interagency Relationships, (2007)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  • Civil Society and Post-Conflict Reconciliation: A Modified-Identity, Reciprocal Obligations Approach London School of Economics
  • Quality Unveiled From the Inside Out, Quality Progress
  • Learning Relationships and Community Well-Being, Cultural Survival Quarterly
  • International Relationships and Community Well-being
  • Adaptive Solutions to Conflict through Living Systems' Cycles
  • Information Physics: the Sustenance of Living Systems
  • Confronting Change: The Guide to Borderless Business
  • Poverty, Priorities, and Strategies for Higher & Adult Education
  • The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Borderless Business
  • Sustainability Compact for Local Government and Citizenry
  • LEAD: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Development
  • Systemic, Sustainable Communities: A Peer Approach
  • Harnessing the Power of Living Systems' Cycles
  • Bridging The Atlantic: Education for a Global Society
  • Education and Economics: Educated humans as a resource
  • Global Changes in Higher Education:
    Threats or Opportunities? Confronting Change
  • Women & International Success As Entrepreneurs
  • Curricula and Syllabi: The Relationship to Performance Standards and Measures of Outcome
  • The Interdependence/Dependence Paradox: International Interrelationships
    the Improvement of Quality of Life
  • Inducing Community Wellness: The Correspondence between Complex Living Systems' Dynamics, Collective Learning, and Well Being based Community Development

*Unless otherwise noted, these articles and papers were written between 1997 and the present; they appeared in as diverse publications as the Leadership education sourcebook: Courses and programs (1997), the Systems Thinker Journal: Leverage (1999), Cultural Survival Quarterly (2001), the TQM business journal quality progress (2002), and published conference proceedings, such as the International Society for the Improvement of Quality of Life, Washington D.C. (2003).


  • Senior Policy Advisor Development & Reconstruction , US Agency for International Development & DOD, Afghanistan
  • Chief of Party, Louis Berger Group, Macedonia
  • Executive Director, Adaptive Solutions - worked on projects in USA, Russia, Eastern/Western Europe, Central America, India, New Zealand, Australia, Africa, Indonesia, China.
  • Director of Operations, Enviro Quest
  • Awarded the NATO Medal for Service in an International Security Assistance Force Operation, 2007
  • DOD, Subject Matter Expert, MRX Training, 82nd Airborne, Ft. Bragg, November 2006
  • The Hague, Panelist Royal Society – Future of Netherlands, May 2005
  • United Nations Panel Member Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 2003-present
  • UNESCO sponsored speaker globalization conference Council of tribal Elders and Ancient Traditions India, 2003
  • Made Honorary Director-University of Lampung, Indonesia, 2002
  • Speaker International Society for the Improvement of Quality of Life 2002
  • Strategic Director-Girls Whispers International. AIDS' orphans support society, Cameron, Africa 2001 -- present
  • Speaker-11th Annual International Social Conflict Resolution Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia 2000
  • Primary Speaker-14th International Systems Dynamics Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 1999
  • Cultural Liaison-Business Development and Australian aboriginals Australia, 1999



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