OUR RESEARCH & ACADEMIC METHODS
Our approach has been tested and validated in collaboration with Fortune Global 1000 companies, diplomatic missions, and international organizations, including IBM, FIFA, and the United Nations. With strong academic support, we partner with educational institutions worldwide and offer complimentary coaching programs that combine Swiss scientific tradition with advanced cultural management studies. At the core of our method is a clear and interactive teaching approach that encourages engagement, practical insight, and lasting results. We integrate leading research in cross-cultural management and diplomacy, including the “7 Mental Images” framework developed by Huib Wursten, which helps understand cultural differences and decision-making across societies.By combining theory, practice, and innovation, we shape cultural diplomats, journalists, educators, interpreters, lawyers, and executives—preparing them to succeed in today’s global environment.
Our Scientific Philanthropists
Mr Huib Wursten, MBA
Mr Huib Wursten (Netherlands) Mr. Huib Wursten (MBA, Netherlands) was a Swiss Institute of Cultural Diplomacy Academic and Research Advisor. Huib is an internationally recognized expert in how to align international teams. His (2020) book “The 7 Mental images of National Culture: Leading and Managing in a Globalized World” is highly appreciated by international businesses. Since 1989 Huib has been working in this field with Fortune's top 1000 companies and private organizations in 85 countries on all continents. He did this in the business sector with companies such as IBM, 3M, McCain, Quest, Texaco, Vodafone, ABN AMRO, JP MorganChase, Nike and Unilever. In the public sector, he has consulted the IMF in Washington D.C , The World Bank Group in Washington D.C, the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Europol, UNDP, Council of Europe, and the Dutch peacekeeping forces. In his work with worldwide organizations, Huib has developed a tool to differentiate seven fundamentally different cultural “grammar systems” with different preferences for political behavior, societal arrangements, educational systems, leadership styles, business approaches, and even different approaches to sports. He has published 25 well-respected argumentative and innovative papers on international cooperation. One is the award-winning: “Mental Images. The influence of culture on (economic) policies” (1997). ( A Honorary Member).
Dr Hamid Doost Mohammadian (Germany) is a Professor for international management and sustainability. He is the director for international management and head of FHM German Institute of SMEs (F-GISI) at the University of Applied Sciences (FHM) in Germany. He is also an external Professor and supervisor at the TU-Campus EUREF gGmbH (TU Berlin) in the field of sustainable business, building, energy, mobility, and engineering management. Dr. Hamid Doost Mohammadian is a visiting professor at Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) in Berlin and PhD supervisor/examiner of FHM joint doctoral programs powered by two British State Universities. In addition, he is a Professor and Board Member at London Institute of Skills Development (LISD), UK. Since 2017, he has been contributing as an academic leader to the Erasmus + project named: “”Internet of Energy (IoE)-Education/Qualification” in Germany. He is a futurist and theoretician for the 5th Wave/Tomorrow Age Theory, i-Sustainability Plus Theory and DCT (Doost Cultural Theory). He has invented, introduced, and developed several models, concepts, and methods in Hybrid Knowledge which were reflected in several books and scientific articles. Professor Dr Mohammadian held has undertaken more than 450 speeches, workshops, and webinars, . He has participated in various international conferences, dedicated to sustainability, culture, management, CSR, blue-green economy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and digitalization. Finally, he is a writer , a conference chairman, keynote speaker and member of the editorial board at of more than 15 high ranked international scientific journals, including Swiss and US ones.
Dr Hamid Doost Mohammadian, PhD
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Dr Oleg Manyuta, PhD
Dr Oleg Manyuta (United Kingdom) is a legal scholar and international lawyer specialising in financial law, digital governance and sovereignty theory. He is the Founder and Director of Research of the Swiss Institute of Cultural Diplomacy (SICD) and managing partner of the international legal advisory group ADVISERS LLP in London.
Dr Manyuta’s research focuses on the transformation of sovereignty in the digital age, including extraterritorial governance, blockchain-based governance systems and emerging forms of digital jurisdiction. His work combines legal analysis, political theory and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of non-territorial political entities and decentralized governance structures.
He has conducted extensive research on the international legal status of the Sovereign Order of Malta and the evolution of sovereignty beyond the traditional territorial state. His recent research project, Digital Sovereignty and Extraterritorial Governance, explores the emergence of digital polities, blockchain governance systems and experimental models of decentralized political institutions.
Dr Manyuta has been involved in legal and academic research since 2000 and has worked in the fields of international commercial law, financial regulation, trust law and blockchain regulation. He has published analytical works on digital assets, decentralized finance and the future of monetary sovereignty.
His research project “Digital Sovereignty and Extraterritorial Governance” is archived in the Zenodo Open Science Repository (CERN) and assigned a persistent digital identifier (DOI).
Research archive:
https://zenodo.org/records/16923092
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16923092