Students of COMS 420 Public Diplomacy (coordinated by Professor Natalia Chaban of Media & Comms) reported their public diplomacy campaigns (the final assessment in the course) to the diplomatic jury – Dr Alessio Guarino, Attaché for Education and Research of the Embassy of France to New Zealand and Amy Norris-Hibbert, Public Diplomacy and Enquiries Adviser at High Commission of New Zealand to the UK, an MStratCom and Public Diplomacy course alumnus. The winning team – MStratCom students Ella Bond, Clair Gullidge and Fei Li – will present their campaign focused on the French sports diplomacy towards NZ to the Communication Team of the Embassy of France to NZ. The Public Diplomacy students also met with Andrew Cutler, the Director of Communications of NZ MFAT, who talked with students about the profession of international strategic communicator, NZ MFAT Communication Division and NZ public diplomacy.
