Ana C. Rold is an award-winning media executive and the Founder, CEO & Publisher of Diplomatic Courier, which is now in its twentieth year as the media network and magazine with readers in 182 countries. Through Diplomatic Courier she has also built Global Dialogues, a curated convening series that includes the Signal Salons, and The Envoys, an awards program honoring people who practice diplomacy across sectors. A serial entrepreneur, she co-founded and is a board member of the Learning Economy Foundation, a nonprofit that works to turn emerging technologies into fairer learning and economic systems. In 2012 she founded World in 2050, a futures think tank that has convened more than 50,000 leaders from government, business, and civil society to discuss the forces reshaping work, education, health, and cities.

She is the author of "Everyone’s Business: Two Decades of Diplomacy Beyond the Corridors," which traces how Diplomatic Courier grew from a magazine into a convener and a champion of the idea that diplomacy is practiced far more widely than its official corridors. That idea now anchors the Global Embassy, Diplomatic Courier’s civic platform for the “unordained diplomats” working outside official channels, which brings philanthropy, enterprise, and public institutions together to act in concert rather than in isolation.

From 2009 to 2020, Ana was Editor-in-Chief of the official leadership publications for the G7/G8, G20, B20, and APEC summits. She taught comparative politics at Northeastern University for sixteen years and directed two study-abroad programs in Cyprus and Egypt. She began her career as a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the United Nations Foundation.

Ana has long advocated for women’s leadership. She mentored the inaugural cohort of the Bush Institute’s Women’s Initiative, served on the Women’s Democracy Network Advisory Council from 2011-2019, and mediated dialogues between women elected leaders from Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2018 she received the American Women for International Understanding Internationalism Award.

She is a board member of Smithsonian Science Education Center and a Brain Trust member of the XPRIZE Foundation. She holds a master’s in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University and a bachelor’s in International Affairs from Northeastern University, and she speaks five languages.