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Lorenzo Kihlgren Grandi
Phone: 07 82 12 22 22 - lk2894@columbia.eduDr. Lorenzo Kihlgren Grandi is the founding director of the City Diplomacy Lab (Columbia Global Centers | Paris). He is a lecturer in City Diplomacy at Sciences Po – PSIA, Columbia Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE | Paris), and École Polytechnique. He regularly advises international organizations, national governments, city networks, and municipalities on how to fully unfold the added value of city diplomacy.
Author of City Diplomacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), he holds a dual PhD in Political Theory from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris) and Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS, Rome).
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Teaching
• City Diplomacy - Sciences Po, Paris School for International Affairs (PSIA) Master Program
• City Diplomacy - École polytechnique, Smart Cities and Urban Policy Master Program
• City Diplomacy - Columbia Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE | Paris) -
Web
How cities cooperate to address transnational challenges, in Brears, R.C. (ed.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
For a new municipalism. From the pandemic crisis to the response of cities, Broken Cities. Re-composing eco-social cleavages for a new urban agenda, Fondazione Feltrinelli, 2021.
Combing Moral ‘Good’ with Self-interest: Cities as Public Diplomacy Actors, with Amiri, S., in Alexander, C. (ed.) The Frontiers of Public Diplomacy: Historical and Contemporary Boundaries, Routledge, 2021.
Diplomazia delle Città, Egea, 2021.
La diplomatie des villes au service de la cohésion économique, sociale et territorial, Raisonnance / Association Internationale des Maires Francophones (AIMF), March 1, 2021.
City diplomacy and the “glocal” skills to foster peace, Local Governments and a Culture of Peace, UCLG, March 2021.
Le siècle métropolitain, Manière de Voir n°175, Le Monde Diplomatique, February-March 2021.
City Diplomacy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
