Nina Jankowicz is Vice President at the Centre for Information Resilience, a social enterprise focused on countering disinformation. From March to May 2022 she served as the head of the Disinformation Board of the U.S. Homeland Security. Previously, Jankowicz was a Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute where she studied the intersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe and a senior advisor at the Centre for Information Resilience. She is the author of How To Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict (Bloomsbury/IBTauris 2020) and How to Be A Woman Online (Bloomsbury 2022). In 2018 she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on responses to disinformation. Previously, she advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. Prior to her Fulbright grant in Ukraine, Jankowicz managed democracy assistance programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
Her work has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Foreign Policy, The Wilson Quarterly, and others. She is a frequent commentator on disinformation and Russian and Eastern European affairs, and has been interviewed by CNN's Christiane Amanpour and PBS's Judy Woodruff. Jankowicz received her MA in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and her BA from Bryn Mawr College.
Sub-specialties:
Disinformation, Propaganda, Information Warfare, Online Manipulation, Social Media, Foreign Influence, Russia, Ukraine, Poland Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Baltic States, NATO, OSCE, Elections, Election Security
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