Acting as a catalyst for defining and strengthening cultural harmony, our ongoing mission led to a world-first definition and measurement of cultural diversity, encapsulated by the launch of Diversity Atlas in 2020.
Our story
Why we’re here
From producing and directing major intercultural productions for the United Nations, the Parliament of World Religions, and the United Religions Initiative, Cultural Infusion’s Founder, Peter Mousaferiadis is an internationally recognised thought leader of culture as a driver of peace and innovation.
Cultural Infusion was founded in 2002 with a vision to help create a world that is culturally harmonious. The mission of business and the foundation has been to build global harmony through intercultural action.
Diversity Alas is the culmination of this work, and we are now in the prestigious role as an Official Observer of the UNESCO 2005 Convention, serving as the Secretariat for 100+ Civil Society Organisations driving global cultural policy.
Researching the diversity of cultures
to create harmony
In 2016, we began a six year research project to understand diversity. Concerned with the cultural dimension of conflict, with 75% of the world’s conflicts having a cultural dimension according to UNESCO, we also recognised workplace diversity can lead to disruptions in team communication and performance. These findings were published in the scientific journals, including The International Journal of Social Science and Humanity.
The science
a thoroughly researched methodology
Working with experts in computer science, data science, cultural anthropology and organisational theory, along with partners including the Australian National Commission for UNESCO and ANU, we developed the world's first and most comprehensive human diversity data-analytics platform.
'Divided we fall, united we stand, diversified we grow'
Winning Slogan developed Cultural Infusion’s founder Peter Mousaferiadis for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations “Do One Thing for Diversity” campaign, 2013
Staff Bios
Peter Mousaferiadis
CEO
Bio
Michael Walmsley
Chief Experience Officer
Bio
Rezza Moieni
Chief Technology Officer
Bio
Diane Herz
Strategic Advisor and coach
Bio
Amna Ben Amara
Research & Partnerships Director
Bio
Advisory Board
Dr Juliet Bourke
International business advisor & Professor
GAICD
Bio
Elizabeth Birch
President and CEO
The Elizabeth Birch Company
Bio
Jean Christophe-Bas
Founder and CEO
The Global Compass
Bio
Mohammed Khodr
Sales Director
SnowFlake
Bio
Amri B. Johnson
CEO
Inclusion Wins
Bio
Tali Nates
Founder & Director
Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
Bio
Rosangela de Jesus das Neves
Founder
ID4AL
Bio
Sheena Michele Mason
Assoc. Professor
SUNY Oneonta
Bio
Nina Olatoke
Vice President(EMEA)
BDP International
Bio
Ben Christensen
Sustainability Business Leader
SAP
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What we stand for
We work to understand our cultural diversity and build harmony and well being through contributing to a society that:
Can meaningfully measure the richness and diversity in people that exists in our world
Values intercultural understanding
Utilises its cultural richness to benefit society as a whole
Uses cultural and artistic expression as a means of promoting social cohesion
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Peter Mousaferiadis is a thought leader in the space of culture, and of utilising culture as a driver of peace, sustainability, and innovation. He has spent over three decades working in the cultural and creative industries, and is a winner of numerous international awards in interculturalism including the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Intercultural Innovation Award as well as producing the winning slogan “Diversified We Grow” for their “Do One Thing for Diversity” campaign. Peter is regularly called upon as a thought leader of culture as a driver of peace.
Michael leads the commercialisation of digital technologies, including Diversity Atlas. Michael has played pivotal leadership roles that have resulted in local and global expansions. Prior to Cultural infusion, Michael led commercialisation of unique emerging technologies and data businesses, including Dialog information services with its Thomson Reuters acquisition ,Lexer pre Series A and Hitwise with its sale to Experian for $250m.
CTO and Project Director of Cultural Infusion since 2015. Rezza has a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering and a Master’s degree in Computer Science (Information Security). He graduated as the best student of 2012 from University Teknologi Malaysia in 2012 having started his career as a broadcast Engineer in 2001 at IRIB and continued his career pathway as a technical and project director of many national level projects in the broadcasting industry in Iran.
Diane Herz has 4 decades of experience in social and economic research. She has led interdisciplinary teams across the public and private sectors. Most recently she was CEO of the Social Research Centre (SRC) in Melbourne, Australia.
She previously held roles as Vice President of Human Services Research and Chief Diversity Officer at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington, DC. Her government experience includes 21 years at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and she has published many papers in labor economics.
Diane’s international leadership, research, and strategic skills bring a wealth of experience to the team.
Amna Ben Amara is a researcher and consultant in intercultural management with master’s degrees from Slovenia and Tunisia. She has trained with Erasmus+, DAAD, and the European Commission, and was recently a visiting researcher at the University of Paris-Est Créteil. As Research and Partnership Co-ordinator at Diversity Atlas, she brings valuable expertise to the organisation’s thought leadership.
Seasoned executive with experience in building and merging business into a Big4, leading the growth of a specialist team and advising on culture transformation with clients that include the UN, Apple, QBE and BHP.
Recent publications:
How confidence is weaponised against women (2022, HBR)
Three ways to be a more inclusive colleague (2021, HBR)
Which two heads are better than one? (2nd ed 2021, AICD)
The key to inclusive leadership (2020, HBR)
Why inclusive leaders are good for organisations and how to become one (2019, HBR)
The D&I Revolution: 8 Powerful Truths (2018, Deloitte)
Missing out: The business case for customer diversity (2017, Deloitte)
It's almost all about me. Workplace 2030: Built for us (2013, Deloitte)
Waiter, is that inclusion in my soup? A new recipe to improve business performance (2012, Deloitte)
President and CEO of the Elizabeth Birch Company (EBCO), advising a wide variety of corporate and not-for-profit clients and speaking on issues relating to corporate and organizational management, with a focus on Diversity & inclusion. Birch is a former Chief Attorney at Apple (1989–1995), and former President (1995–2005) of the Human Rights Campaign (the USA's largest LGBT advocacy organization), where she oversaw a vibrant period of growth and branding, including the establishment of the HRC HQ in Washington DC.
Jean Christophe advises governments, intergovernmental organisations, public entities and the corporate sector to promote pluralism, inclusive society, intercultural dialogue, education for democratic citizenship and participation. Founder and CEO of Connecters for Peace past Director of Democratic Citizenship and Participation at the Council of Europe. From 2008 to 2014, he served at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in New York as deputy Director, Strategic Development and Partnerships, where he spearheaded the development of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Asia and the Pacific. From 1999 to 2008, he was the Head of Development Policy Dialogue at the World Bank, where he created and developed the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He was the first Executive Director of the Aspen Institute France (1994-1999), chaired by former French Prime Minister Raymond Barre.
Sales Director of software development company Snowflake, and is based in the United Arab Emirates. Former roles include Director of Sales and Africa Regional Sales Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He has more than 21 years of IT/data analytics experience in mature and emerging markets across Cloud and workflow software, infrastructure and services domains spanning all major industry verticals.
Amris is the CEO of Inclusion Wins, a consultancy business that works with companies of all sizes on their inclusion strategies and is the former Global Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Novartis. He is based in Switzerland and is the author of Reconstructing Inclusion: Making Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Accessible, Actionable, and Sustainable (Benbella, 2022).
I am the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. I am a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education, genocide prevention, reconciliation and human rights.
Rosangela de Jesus das Neves is the founder of ID4AL, advising organisations and individuals on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) and Portfolio Living. With a 16-year career at the United Nations across multiple countries, she is a member of the Danish MFA expert pool and a certified professional in HR, Diversity and Inclusion and Project Management. Rosangela also holds leadership positions in WCAPS Brasil and Red Cross Broendby and is a graduate of Cornell University, the United Nations System Staff College and the Copenhagen Business Academy.
Sheena Michele Mason is an assistant professor of English at SUNY Oneonta, specialising in Africana and American literature studies and philosophy of race. She holds a PhD with distinction in English from Howard University. Widely published, she is also the innovator of the togetherness wayfinder and founder of educational firm Theory of Racelessness. Her book The Raceless Antiracist: Why Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism shows how ending our belief in “race” and practices affirming this belief are required to end racialised dehumanisation.
Nina Olatoke is Vice President of HR for Europe, the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (EMEA) at BDP International, developing people strategies across 21 countries and 3 continents. With over 16 years’ experience in HR, she is dedicated to aligning business strategy and human resources.Nina is also co-founder of the largest African festival in the Middle East, the All Africa Festival. She is passionate about creating positive change and making a significant impact through her work and community initiatives.
Ben is a sustainability business leader with 20 years of experience building teams and promoting inclusion and literacy in Mexico, New Zealand, Taiwan, the USA, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. A Danish immigrant's son, he co-authored an inclusive innovation methodology, presented at the Vatican Youth Symposium, co-founded the SAP Interfaith Alliance, and advanced AI ethics in a Fortune 500 company. Ben writes for the International Religious Freedom Secretariat and views humanity as an 8.1 billion-strong team capable of solving global challenges. He believes in harnessing the world's talents to meet the challenges of each era.
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