International School of Protocol and Diplomacy
| The International School of Protocol and Diplomacy | |
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Rue de Pascale 16 Brussels, 1000 Belgium | |
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| Established | 2008 |
| Founder | Ines Pires-Urquiza |
| Dean | Luis Ritto |
| Classes offered | Master's Degree in Protocol and Soft Diplomacy Skills, Postgraduate Certificate in Protocol, Executive Diplomas |
| Language | English |
| Website | http://ispdnetwork.org/ |
The International School of Protocol and Diplomacy (ISPD) is a non-governmental, non-profit institution located in Brussels, Belgium with focused training in the area of protocol, etiquette, soft diplomacy and cross-cultural relations. Within the last four years the school gathered a team of experts in the field, including Dr. Luis Ritto, former EU Ambassador to the Holy See, who serves as the dean; and Ambassador Jacques de Baenst, former Chief of Protocol at the European Commission.
ISPD works in close partnership with Universidad Camilo Jose Cela in Madrid. ISPD’s language of instruction is English and its method of teaching is based on both in-class training and online learning platform for students in distant parts of the world.
According to the Journal of International Diplomatic Higher Education, “the ISPD is the first international institution of diplomatic and protocolar higher education to offer a masters degree in protocol, business and foreign relations thus giving it an enviable and exclusively unique niche in diplomacy’s intimate sister statecraft, protocol. The ISPD’s masters degree in protocol programme is only the more elevated on the scale of exclusivity, prestige and privilege by its access to the Brussels, EU and larger euro-continental diplomatic communities at The Hague and in Paris, London and Geneva.”[1]