Science Diplomacy, Cyberdiplomacy and Techplomacy in EU-LAC Relations

Dr. Mario Torres Jarrín is Director of the Institute of European Studies and Human Rights at the Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain). Previously, he was Director at the European Institute of International Studies (Sweden); Research Associate and Adjunct Lecturer in Regionalism in Latin America in the Chair of International Business and Society Relations with focus of Latin America at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany); Lecturer-Research Associate in the Institute of Latin American Studies and, as well as Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Faculty of Humanities at Stockholm University (Sweden). He has been a Visiting Professor in universities across Europe and diplomatic academies in Europe, Americas and Asia. He holds a PhD in History, a Master in European Union Studies, and a BA in Business Studies from the University of Salamanca (Spain).

Shaun Riordan is Director of the Chair for Diplomacy and Cyberspace at the European Institute of International Studies, Sweden, and a senior fellow of the Charhar Institute, Beijing. He is a senior consultant with UNITAR for Digital and Cyber Diplomacy and a consultant with UNDP on public diplomacy. A member of the European Commission s advisory commission on encryption, he has advised the GSD Fund on public diplomacy and the UNWTO on security issues. He holds an MA (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. Among his publications are The New Diplomacy (Polity 2003), Cyberdiplomacy: Managing Security and Governance Online (Polity, 2019) and The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: A Diplomatic Perspective (Brill, 2019). He teaches in various diplomatic academies and universities.