Strategic Diplomatic Communications
Supported diplomatic communication and multilateral engagement through policy briefs, statements, and negotiation reporting.
While working with the Permanent Mission of Maldives in Geneva, I supported diplomatic communication, policy reporting, stakeholder engagement, and multilateral exposure across the UN system, WTO, and other international organisations.
The role involved attending and analysing formal sessions, side events, informal negotiations, and consultations across issues including AI and emerging technologies, climate, health, human rights, and development. I also had the opportunity to represent the Mission in dialogues on AI and emerging technologies.
I followed sessions of the Human Rights Council, including HRC55 and HRC56, UPR discussions, and WTO sessions during MC13 negotiations. The work often required tracking several parallel discussions, identifying key developments, and turning them into clear meeting minutes, briefs, reports, and outcome summaries.
I also used ChatGPT to streamline note-taking and session transcription. At the time, I developed a workflow that helped convert long sessions into structured notes with high accuracy, while manually reviewing outputs for speaker names, terminology, and diplomatic nuance. I later created a custom GPT to standardise the process, which was shared with other interns and diplomats who had similar reporting needs.
A large part of the work involved analysing UN reports, national reports, country positions, draft resolutions, and meeting outcomes to prepare briefs and statements aligned with national priorities. I also supported speeches and statements for senior delegates, often under tight deadlines and during long working days.
The experience gave me strong exposure to multilateralism, stakeholder engagement, and the power dynamics between different groups, including SIDS, the OIC, the Global South, and Western states. It helped me understand how national priorities are communicated, negotiated, and defended in international forums.
At the end of the role, I also produced a large consolidated report covering resolutions, session summaries, key outcomes, and voting results across the meetings I had followed.
This experience strengthened my ability to write with precision, understand stakeholder positions, synthesise complex information quickly, and communicate in a careful diplomatic style.
