I'm a recovering Ambassador and a failed boxer, frontman, school teacher and door to door salesman. 

 

After four years as foreign policy adviser to three Prime Ministers, and four representing the UK in Lebanon, I'm now a Visiting Professor of International Relations at New York University, and chair the International Advisory Council of the Creative Industries Federation, promoting Britain's most dynamic and magnetic sector overseas. I'm an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University, and an Advisor to the Global Business Coalition for Education and the Emirates Diplomatic Academy. 

 

I recently led a review of British diplomacy for the UK Foreign Office, and on the future of the United Nations for the UN Secretary General. I'm leading a report on what skills the next generation need to thrive in the 21st century.

 

My book on the future of statecraft, ‘The Naked Diplomat: Power and Politics in the Digital Age’, was published in June 2016 by Harper Collins. I write a column for The National and am working slowly on a murder novel.

 

I live in Abu Dhabi with Louise, Charlie and Theo.