Sasha Havlicek
Co-Founder and CEO
Sasha Havlicek is Co-Founder and CEO of ISD, having spearheaded ISD’s pioneering research and data analysis, digital education, policy advisory, training, tech and communications programmes.
Experts displayed by Issue: Disinformation
Moustafa Ayad
Executive Director; Africa, the Middle East and Asia (AMEA)
Moustafa Ayad is Executive Director at ISD for Africa, the Middle East and Asia (AMEA).
Cornelius Adebahr
Interim Executive Director, ISD Germany
Julia Ebner
Senior Resident Research Fellow
Julia Ebner's research focuses on the far-right, online radicalisation, hate speech, disinformation and conspiracy myths. Based on undercover research within extremist movements, she published two bestselling books that have been translated into multiple languages, and recently published Going Mainstream: How Extremists Are Taking Over has just been released.
Francesca Arcostanzo
Director of Digital Analysis Unit
Francesca is ISD's Director of the Digital Analysis Unit, working to ensure our research methods, tools and approaches in the digital analysis space remain consistent and innovative.
Jiore Craig
Resident Senior Fellow, Digital Integrity
Jiore Craig, a Resident Senior Fellow at ISD, has extensive experience in measuring the impact of influence campaigns on public opinion, and how to respond to the threat disinformation poses to democracy.
Katherine Keneally
Director of Threat Analysis and Prevention, ISD US
Katherine is the Director of Threat Analysis and Prevention, ISD US, where she leads the strategic thinking and projects that track online to offline threats of political violence across the ideological spectrum at the intersection of extremism, hate and disinformation in the US.
Jennie King
Senior Fellow
Jennie King is a Senior Fellow at ISD. Previously, she served as ISD's Director of Climate Disinformation Research and Policy, where she led initiatives to transform ISD's digital research into actionable frontline programs and responses.
Melanie Smith
Director of Research, Information Operations
Melanie Smith is the Director of Research, Information Operations, at ISD. Based in London, she leads a team of analysts focused on detecting and exposing information threats from state and non-state actors.
Tim Squirrell
Director of Communications and Editorial
Tim Squirrell has extensive experience advising governments and others on counter-extremism and counter-terrorism, particularly far-right and neo-Nazi movements, incels and misogynist communities, and esoteric threats such as school shooters.