Jacob Davey is the Director of Policy and Research for Counter-hate at ISD. Over the last decade Jacob has led a portfolio of projects focusing on countering online hate speech, hate crime, the international far-right, and political violence. He has developed piloted novel models for counter-hate interventions has lead numerous initiatives tracking and countering far-right extremism and hate speech online, including analysis for government in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. He regularly advises policy makers at the highest level on hate speech and extremism and has provided expert testimony in the UK to the Home Affairs Select Committee, the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, and the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee. Jacob is a founding board member of the Extremism and Gaming Research Network and regularly provides expert commentary in the media (BBC, Channel 4 News, The New York Times, The Guardian and others).