Francis Shin is an author and analyst in international and public affairs, and a PhD student in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He specializes in great power competition, global governance, and grand strategy, with a particular focus on geoeconomics, democratic resilience, and other emerging domains in hybrid warfare.

He holds a Master of International Affairs degree from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, where his dissertation was on the growing role of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) network in international sanctions regimes.

Shin was previously a researcher at the Atlantic Council and the Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing, a research partnership with the Royal United Services Institute’s Centre for Finance and Security Studies (now called the Centre for Finance and Security). Shin has also worked at the Center for a New American Security and the United Nations Office at Geneva.