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CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details

Name: Shaun Christopher Thomson Riordan Date of Birth: 11 February 1961 Place of Birth: Hastings, UK Current Address: Avda de Orense, 9 Bajo B San Sebastián de los Reyes 28700 Madrid Telephone: (00 34) 609 034 020 E-mail: [email protected]

Education

1980 – 83 MA(hons) in Philosophy, Gonville and Caius Collage, Cambridge

1995 – 98 Courses with the Open University in Economics, Geology and Contemporary History

Professional Experience

2006 - Co-Director of the Public Diplomacy Project, the Royal Elcano Institute

2005 - 6 Consultant for Counterpoint, British Council think-tank

2004 - Member of the Editorial Board of Foreign Policy Versión Española

2002 – 3 Visiting Research Fellow of the Centre for Global Governance, London School of Economics

2000 - Director of ZEIA SL, Madrid based consultancy company

1984 – 2000 Member of HM Diplomatic Service

1995 – 2000 Head of Political and Public Affaire Department, British Embassy, Madrid

1993 – 95 Head of Policy Section, Ex Yugoslavia Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), London

1991 – 93 Head of Middle-East and European Section, Counter- terrorism Department, FCO, London

1990 – 91 First Secretary, Political Section, British Embassy, Peking

1 1988 – 1990 Second Secretary, Political Section, British Embassy, Peking

1986 – 87 Chinese (Mandarin) language training, Taiwan

1985 – 86 UNESCO Section, Un Department, FCO, London

1984 – 85 UK Mission to the UN, New York

Publicaciones y Colaboraciones

 “The New Diplomacy”, Polity Press 2003 (translated in 2005 into Romanian and Spanish, the latter with prologue by Spanish Foreign Minister Moratinos).  “The Republican Monarchy” in “Monarchies”, DEMOS 2002.  “A New Approach to the Analysis of Geo-Political Risk” (with Paul Ormerod), “Diplomacy and Statecraft”, 15 (4), December 2004.  “ Dialogue-based Public Diplomacy: A New Foreign Policy Paradigm?”, “Discussion Papers in Diplomacy”, 95, November 2004, “Netherlands Institute of International Relations “Clingendael””  “ Dialogue-based Public Diplomacy: A New Foreign Policy Paradigm?”, in “Public Diplomacy and the Management of Foreign Policy”, ed. Melissen, Palgrave 2005.  “¿Alliance of Civilizations or Alliance of the Civilized?””, ARI, Royal Elcano Institute 2006  “Reform of the Spanish Foreign Servicel”, Working Document, Royal Elcano Institute 2006  “ Thinking About the Future: New Approaches to Modelling Geoolitical Risk”, Real Insituto Elcano 2006  Commentator for the BBC on Spanish politics and International Security and for Antena 3, RTVE y EITB (Spanish televison channels) on International Security and British politics