Colette Mazzucelli

Founder & Principal, LEAD IMPACT Reconciliation Institute

Colette Mazzucelli, MALD, EdM, PhD, HonD, is a member of the graduate faculty at New York University’s School of Professional Studies, Center for Global Affairs, where she teaches International Relations in the Post-Cold War Era, Europe in the 21st Century, and Ethnic Conflicts. She also teaches Global Minds: Cultivating Intercultural Competence and Inclusive Citizenship.

With expertise spanning international relations, European integration, intercultural competence, reconciliation, and global affairs, Professor Mazzucelli brings an interdisciplinary perspective to complex global challenges.

She is the Founder and Principal of LEAD IMPACT Reconciliation Institute, an initiative focused on ethical challenges facing civil society, with work spanning listening, ethics and data in migration “provention,” cyber transformation, and reconciliation. The Institute brings together an international network of experts and collaborators across multiple regions.

From 2020–2022, Professor Mazzucelli served as First President (Academia) of the Global Listening Centre, London. She is also the Editor of the Anthem Press Ethics of Personal Data Collection Series, exploring ethical questions at the intersection of data, technology, and international relations.

A Fellow of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, she assisted with the ratification of the Treaty on European Union at Germany’s Federal Foreign Office in 1992–93. She is also a non-resident lifetime member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, Los Angeles.