Shaun Riordan is Director of the Chair for Diplomacy and Cyberspace at the European Institute of International Studies. He is also a senior research fellow of the Charhar Institute (Beijing) and a senior visiting fellow of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ("Clingendael"). He is a senior consultant with both UNITAR and UNDP for public, digital and cyber diplomacy and a research associate of the Pontifical University of Salamanca. Shaun has taught at diplomatic academies in Spain, the Dominican Republic, Bulgaria and Armenia, as well as the University of Deusto and the Financial Markets Institute in Madrid. Shaun served for 16 years in the British diplomatic service, during which time he served in New York, Taiwan, Beijing and Madrid, as well as the United Nations, Hong Kong, Counterterrorism and Eastern Adriatic Departments in the Foreign Office in London. he is the author of "The New Diplomacy" (Polity 2003), "Adiós a la Diplomacia" (Siglo XXI 2005), "The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: A Diplomatic Perspective" (Brill 2018) and "Cyberdiplomacy: Managing Security and Governance in Cyberspace" (Polity 2019). He has forthcoming books on techplomacy and business diplomacy. He has contributed numerous articles book chapters and currently has a blog. Shaun's current research interests focus on geopolitics, innovation in diplomacy and the intersection of new technologies (including AI) with geopolitics and diplomacy. He places special emphasis on the importance of interest-based diplomacy in managing geopolitical tensions. Shaun is President of BideDao Consulting which advises governments and companies on the application of diplomatic techniques and practices to the management of geopolitical volatility.