shaun riordan

Shaun is head of the Chair for Diplomacy and Cyberspace at the European Institute of International Studies, a Research Fellow at the Charhar Institute (Beijing) and a senior consultant on public, digital and cyber diplomacy with UNITAR and UNDP. A former British diplomat, Shaun served in New York, Taiwan, Beijing and Madrid, as well as the Counter-Terrorism and Yugoslavia departments of the Foreign Office in London. The current focus of his work is the intersection between geopolitics, emerging disruptive technologies (EDTs) and diplomacy. Shaun is author of the New Diplomacy (2003), Adios a la Diplomacia (2005), Cyberdiplomacy: Managing Security and Governance on Line (2019) and The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: A Diplomatic Perspective (2019)