How to Strategise | Information Webinar 2026

How to Strategise - Lessons from the Executive MSc International Strategy and Diplomacy

In a conversation led by our current and incoming heads of practice, Hugh Sandeman and Peter Jones will explore how to strategise from theory and precedents. This dialogue aims to shed light on how lessons from their own careers inform practical experience on the programme, drawing from expertise on diplomacy and national security strategy and how this culminates into world-class training from specialists in the field.

Agenda

This webinar aims to connect the programme team with prospective applicants and offer holders. It will also include an overview of the course curriculum from the team, as well as a Q&A session where you will get the opportunity to ask questions regarding the Programme content, the Programme delivery and the application process.

Please send any questions you wish to be addressed during the webinar to ideas.strategy@lse.ac.uk, with the subject line ‘Information Webinar Question’. Note that you will also have an opportunity to ask your questions live.

The Executive MSc International Strategy and Diplomacy Programme aims to foster students' ability to identify strategic challenges, to formulate strategic vision, and to hone the negotiation skills necessary to advance and apply strategies in practice.

LSE IDEAS is LSE's foreign policy think tank. We connect academic knowledge of diplomacy and strategy with the people who use it.

Meet the Panellists:

Professor Chris Alden, Programme Director

Dr Aaron McKeil, Academic Director, Programme Convenor and Course Tutor

Hugh Sandeman, Head of Practitioners

Peter Jones, Incoming Head of Practitioners

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