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: Election 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).
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.
Jacob Davey
Director of Policy & Research, Counter-Hate
Jacob Davey is the Director of Research & Policy for Far-right and Hate Movements at ISD.
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.
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.
Jared Holt
Senior Research Analyst, ISD US
Jared Holt is a Senior Research Analyst overseeing ISD’s work on hate and extremist movements in the US. He draws on his experience as an investigative reporter to help explain extremism's influence on politics, safety and democracy.
Ciarán O’Connor
Senior Analyst
Ciarán is a Senior Analyst at ISD that specialises in using open-source research to track and monitor disinformation and extremism online, with a particular focus on far-right activity and communication across open and closed networks and platforms.
Richard Kuchta
Analyst
Richard is an Analyst focusing on the research of extremism, FIMI, disinformation, and platform regulation, with a particular specialisation on the Digital Services Act.