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Dr. Akintayo Emmanuel

Global executive, international relations scholar, peacebuilding practitioner, and strategic leader.

  • Diplomacy
  • Mediation
  • Public policy
  • International development
  • Artificial intelligence strategy
  • Quantum strategy
  • Statecraft
Dr. Akintayo Emmanuel, Founder of the Center for Quantum Strategy and Statecraft

Founder, CQSS

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The record

Dr. Akintayo Emmanuel is a global executive, international relations scholar, peacebuilding practitioner, and strategic leader with expertise in diplomacy, mediation, public policy, international development, artificial intelligence strategy, quantum strategy, and statecraft. He serves as Chief Executive Officer of GLISI.Global, a Washington, D.C.–based think-and-do tank advancing innovative solutions in peacebuilding, conflict mediation, leadership development, governance, and sustainable socioeconomic development.

As the visionary leader behind the Center for Quantum Strategy and Statecraft (CQSS), Dr. Emmanuel is committed to advancing strategic foresight, innovative diplomacy, and transformative statecraft for a complex and rapidly changing world. His work focuses on peace and security, geopolitics, migration, climate change, emerging technologies, conflict transformation, institutional renewal, and sustainable development.

“…advancing strategic foresight, innovative diplomacy, and transformative statecraft for a complex and rapidly changing world.”

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Standing

Positions held

These are Dr. Emmanuel’s own affiliations. They are not partners, funders, or accreditations of CQSS.

  1. 01

    Chief Executive Officer

    GLISI.Global

    Washington, D.C.–based think-and-do tank.

  2. 02

    Overseer

    God’s Remnant Assembly Global

  3. 03

    Director

    GRA Mission Squad Global

  4. 04

    Founder

    Africa Entrepreneur and Socioeconomic Development Association

  5. 05

    Founder

    Family Development and Samaritan Foundation

    A United Nations ECOSOC-accredited NGO.

He is also the Overseer of God’s Remnant Assembly Global, Director of GRA Mission Squad Global, founder of the Africa Entrepreneur and Socioeconomic Development Association, and founder of the Family Development and Samaritan Foundation, a United Nations ECOSOC-accredited NGO. Through these platforms, he promotes humanitarian assistance, food security, family well-being, cross-cultural engagement, civic responsibility, and values-based leadership.

Training

Executive education and specialised training

Institutions where Dr. Emmanuel has completed programs. Listing them records where he trained; it does not imply their endorsement of CQSS.

  • E-01Harvard University
  • E-02Harvard Business School Online
  • E-03College of Europe
  • E-04European University Institute
  • E-05University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
  • E-06SIPRI
  • E-07T.M.C. Asser Institute
  • E-08ICCT The Hague
  • E-09UC Berkeley International House
  • E-10University of Maryland
  • E-11CITI Program

A trained geneticist with multidisciplinary experience in Global Studies, intercultural engagement, counterterrorism, leadership development, and strategic capacity building, Dr. Emmanuel has completed executive education and specialized training with leading institutions including Harvard University, Harvard Business School Online, the College of Europe, the European University Institute, the University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre, SIPRI, T.M.C. Asser Institute, ICCT The Hague, UC Berkeley International House, University of Maryland, and the CITI Program.

Founder

One named principal.

F-01 — THE INSTITUTE’S ONLY NAMED PRINCIPAL

Dr. Akintayo Emmanuel is currently the institute’s only named principal. CQSS does not list advisers, fellows, or staff it does not have. Additional people will appear on this page when they join, and not before.