Mr. Shaun Riordan is Director of the Chair for Diplomacy and Cyberspace at the European Institute of Cyberspace, Research Fellow of the Charhar Institute (Beijing) and a Senior Consultant with UNITAR. He is a former British diplomat, who served at the UN in New York, Taiwán, Beijing and Madrid, as well as the Counter-Terrorist, East Adriatic and Hong Kong Departments of the Foreign Office in London. He teaches in diplomatic academies in Bulgaria, Armenia, the Dominican Republic and Spain. He is the author of “The New Diplomacy” (Polity 2003), “Adios a la Diplomacia” (Siglo XXI 2005), “Cyberdiplomacy: Managing Security and Governance Online” (Polity 2019) and "The Geopolitics of Cyberspace" (Brill 2019).