Nick Cull is Professor of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California where he is the founding director of the Master’s program in Public Diplomacy.  He is best known for his histories of US and UK public diplomacy which include ‘The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American propaganda and public diplomacy, 1945-1989’ and ‘The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency: American public diplomacy, 1989-2001.’  As well as writing about what has been in public diplomacy, he also writes about what ought to be.  He is best known for stressing the importance of listening as the foundation of public diplomacy.  His blog posts have appeared with the Center on Public Diplomacy, Huffington Post and Washington Post ‘Monkey Cage.’  According to an American University study of the field he is the most prolific author on the subject of public diplomacy.  He is featured in up-coming documentaries on expo diplomacy, jazz diplomacy, disinformation, and the fictional representation of war.  He is a regular guest speaker at foreign ministries and diplomatic academies around the world and has worked with the Foreign Service Institute, the Institute Mathias Romero (Mexico City), Presence Switzerland and both the British Council and Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.  He has taught guest classes at Beijing Foreign Studies, Catholica Milan and University of Santiago (Chile).  His has just finished a book for Polity Press called ‘Public Diplomacy: The Foundations of Global Engagement for the era of social media’ which will appear later in 2018.