Ilan Manor is a digital diplomacy scholar at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, a Visiting Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and a member of Oxford University's Digital Diplomacy Research Group. Manor’s 2019 book, The Digitalization of Public Diplomacy, was published by Palgrave Macmillan. His upcoming co-edited volume, The Oxford Digital Diplomacy Handbook, will be published in 2022 by Oxford University Press. Manor has Contributed to numerous academic journals including International Affairs, International Studies Reviews, the Cambridge Review of International Affairs and Place Branding and Public Diplomacy.