Phil McAuliffe and the Lonely Diplomat

For Diplomats Who Feel Uprooted: A Website to Call Home

Phil McAuliffe, an Australian midcareer diplomat who has created a website, the Lonely Diplomat, for fellow professionals to “genuinely reconnect with ourselves, with those around us and with the communities in which we live,” he said.
“We diplomats have a strange life,” says Phil McAuliffe. “It’s hard for others to truly understand.”
After serving in posts around the world, he ought to know. Now this veteran of the diplomatic life has decided to go public.
Meet diplomacy’s new spokesperson, champion and interpreter, a k a the Lonely Diplomat.