TECHPLOMACY ADVISORY
Strategic AI and Techplomacy Consulting for Global Enterprises and Policymakers
Christina Mendel is an independent Techplomacy advisor to Fortune 50/500 companies, governments, and global organizations, ensuring ethical, scalable, and forward-thinking AI implementation.
With expertise in AI governance, consumer psychology, and digital transformation, she helps decision-makers navigate the intersection of technology, diplomacy, and regulatory frameworks.
Advising governments, policymakers, and industry leaders on AI’s role in international relations, corporate diplomacy, and geopolitical power shifts.
Techplomacy & Digital Influence
Supporting governments, regulatory bodies, and media organizations in combating AI-generated misinformation, disinformation campaigns, and digital trust issues.
MDH (Mis-, Dis-, and Harmful Information) Governance
Helping governments and multinational organizations develop AI policies, ethical frameworks, and governance strategies.
Global AI Policy & Regulation
Ensuring AI adoption aligns with transparency, fairness, and global ethical standards.
AI Ethics & Responsible Innovation
Helping policymakers and international organizations shape policies that balance technological innovation with privacy, fairness, and democratic integrity.
AI’s Impact on Human Rights & Democracy
Providing thought leadership on how AI will shape economic power, governance, and regulatory landscapes in the coming decades.
Strategic Foresight for Policymakers
TECHPLOMACY ADVISORY FOCUS AREAS
In a world shaped by AI, diplomacy is no longer just political—it’s technological. The future of influence belongs to those who can navigate both.
Christina Mendel
Commitment to Ethical AI
AI companies are racing each other to the top, each driven by the belief that the others won't do it safely or won't stop, and so none of them can afford to stop either. It has the shape of an old diplomatic problem, the logic that governs arms races: restraint only feels safe when everyone practices it at once, and it seems that a trustworthy guarantee on restraint is hard to come buy.
AI companies are racing each other to the top, each driven by the belief that the others won't do it safely or won't stop, and so none of them can afford to stop either. It has the shape of an old diplomatic problem, the logic that governs arms races: restraint only feels safe when everyone practices it at once, and no state can guarantee that.
Techplomacy starts from the fact that the biggest technology companies now hold influence on the level of states. States that decide on the restraint of nuclear power, immigration, and more. Denmark appointed the world's first tech ambassador in 2017 on that argument, and more than 20 countries have followed since. Twenty-eight governments signed the Bletchley Declaration on frontier AI in 2023, and six months later in Seoul, 16 AI companies signed safety commitments of their own, sitting at the table alongside the states.
Navigating this construct as ethically as possible matters more than ever.