Diplomats of Color – Towards more diversity in the Federal Foreign Office

Tiaji Sio is a diplomat. In mid-2019, the 24-year-old launched the “Diplomats of Color” (DoC) initiative at the Federal Foreign Office. Now the DIVERSITRY network has emerged from what started as an internal advocacy group. The network is committed to an overarching diversity strategy in all federal ministries, given that BIPoC are still underrepresented there – especially at management level.

It is 10 a.m. in Germany as we meet for a Zoom interview. For our interviewee Tiaji Maynell Sio, it’s already three in the afternoon. She is currently in Vietnam, where the 24-year-old works in the economic department at the German embassy in Hanoi.