James Shires

James Shires is the Co-Director of both the European Cyber Conflict Research Incubator (ECCRI CIC) and the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI). He was previously a Senior Research Fellow in Cyber Policy at Chatham House, and before that an Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity Governance at the University of Leiden. He has written widely on issues of cyber security and international politics, including cyber-security expertise, digital authoritarianism, spyware regulation, and hack-and-leak operations. He is the author of The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East (London and Oxford: Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2021), and co-editor of Cyberspace and Instability (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023).