Pierre-Bruno Ruffini is a professor at the Faculty of International Affairs of the University of Le Havre-Normandie (France). He is a former Counselor for Science and Technology at the Embassy of France in Russia (2007-2010) and Italy (2010-2013). He is the author of “Science and Diplomacy – A New Dimension of International Relations” (Springer, 2017). He acts as an expert in the ongoing European research project “Inventing a Shared Science Diplomacy for Europe” (InsSciDE - H2020).