Dr. Tomas Rawlings is Design & Production Director at Auroch Digital and its acclaimed news-gaming initiative GameTheNews.net which produced the global talking-point, Endgame:Syria. He is an award winning and experienced games designer. He is a well known speaker on video games and also a consultant who has worked with major organisations such as the Wellcome Trust, the Royal Society, UK Parliament and the BBC. He has a doctorate from the University of the West of England in Software Studies.