Tony Sheridan

Tony Sheridan is the Marketing and Communications Manager at KAUST, one of the top-ranked research universities in the world, on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia. After leading Social Media and Digital Content at University of Limerick to award-winning success for many years, he left his native Ireland and joined KAUST in April 2021. Since then he has worked with the team to bring their marketing and communications campaigns to new heights, working with high-profile, truly global brand partners such as McLaren Formula 1 racing team, Times Higher Education, AAAS/Science, National Geographic, and more. In the last 3 years at KAUST he has taken home more than a dozen awards from around the world including ‘Champion for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ at the ContentEd awards in the UK for spearheading KAUST’s diverse and inclusive storytelling campaigns. He is a storyteller, as a sought after conference Keynote, traveling globally to share his strategies and stories with the global Higher Ed community. Tony has recently Co-Chaired the CASE Middle East Advancement Conference 2024 in Abu Dhabi and Content Ed 2024 in Liverpool.