The Foreign Ministries Science & Technology Advice Network (FMSTAN) serves as an informal community of practice to exchange information, practices and results between experts in charge of advice on science policy or science diplomacy to foreign ministries
FMSTAN is a global web of science advisors and diplomats working within countries’ Foreign Ministries. It began in 2016 with a meeting convened by the U.S. Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State and has subsequently grown to provide a unique peer-to-peer network for science diplomats to build international networks and share their experience.
Science evidence and knowledge can play a critical part in international policy, achieving diplomatic goals, and fostering international collaboration and is the key to meeting our shared global challenges. FMSTAN provides the platform to articulate the benefits of investing in internal S&T advisory capacity within foreign ministries to more fully complement external capacity, by:
Membership of FMSTAN is by invite only. If you are a science advisor in a Foreign Ministry and would like to join the INGSA network you can contact INGSA Programme Officer, Grant Mills, to apply.
FMSTAN News and Events
Join FMSTAN and EU Network – Copenhagen Dec 2025
Kigali, Rwanda – May 2024 – In parallel with INGSA2024
Geneva, Switzerland – Oct 2022 – In parallel with 2022 GESDA Summit
Hybrid Science Diplomacy meeting at ITER – March 2022
FMSTAN During Covid-19
The INGSA Conferences – The cutting edge of science advice
INGSA conferences are the focal point for truly global knowledge sharing on science advice and science diplomacy, the meeting place for practitioners and thought-leaders to help set the aspirations, goals, and gold standards for evidence-to-policy systems from the local to the multilateral.
