Dr Neville Bolt is the Founder and Director of the Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications, following two decades as Director of the King’s Centre for Strategic Communications (KCSC) and Reader in Strategic Communications at King’s College London. He is Editor-in-Chief of Defence Strategic Communications, NATO’s peerreviewed academic journal, and holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Tokyo and Visiting Fellowship at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. Formerly a BBC and CBC journalist, Dr Bolt produced award-winning documentaries from global conflict zones and led landmark media events such as Amnesty International’s Secret Policeman’s Ball, the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute, and LENNON (co-produced with Yoko Ono). He later advised international institutions including the United Nations, UEFA, and the Spanish Government, and played a key role in rebranding the UK Labour Party in the early days of New Labour. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford and holds a PhD from King’s College London where his research focused on insurgent communications and a new theory of the Propaganda of the Deed. His books include the award-winning The Violent Image (Columbia University Press/Oxford University Press), Unmapping the 21st Century (Bristol University Press, with a forthcoming title What is Strategic Communications: Truth, Lies & The Human Condition. Dr Bolt lectures widely at NATO and military institutions, international universities, advises the UK Government, and directs postgraduate programmes for communications professionals in the governments of Japan and the Philippines.