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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Director of Climate Disinformation Research and Policy
Jennie King is the Director of Climate Disinformation Research and Policy, leading efforts to translate ISD’s digital research into frontline programming and response.
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Director of Research, ISD US
Melanie Smith is the Director of Research for ISD US. Based in Washington DC, she leads a team of analysts focused on detecting, exposing and mitigating the threats associated with online information operations.
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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.
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