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: Public Health 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).
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.
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.
Aoife Gallagher
Senior Analyst
Aoife Gallagher is a Senior Analyst on ISD’s Digital Analysis Unit, focusing on the intersection between far-right extremism, disinformation and conspiracy theories.
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.
Kevin D. Reyes
Senior OSINT Specialist, ISD US
Kevin D. Reyes is a Senior OSINT Specialist at ISD, where he leads methodology for open-source investigations and researches online hate, extremism, conspiracy theories and disinformation.
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.
Cécile Simmons
Research Manager
Cécile Simmons is a Research Manager at ISD, specialising in malign influence operations targeting elections, public health and climate disinformation, far-right extremism and conspiracy theories.