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Adam Cooper is the Director for Digital Conflict at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD), overseeing a global programme of work mediating offensive cyber operations and disinformation on social media. He is also host of The Mediator’s Studio podcast. He joined HD in 2010 and previously ran their Myanmar operations for seven years, establishing tracks of negotiations with ethnic armed groups and responding to the Rohingya crisis. Prior to working for HD he coordinated election observation missions in Asia and served as an adviser to former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed. He has degrees from Oxford University and the Harvard Kennedy School. Adam is a Thai and UK national and currently lives in Brussels