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Nina Jankowicz is an internationally recognised expert on disinformation and democratisation, and one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.

Her debut book, How to Lose the Information War (Bloomsbury, 2020), was named a New Statesman book of the year; The New Yorker described it as “a persuasive new book on disinformation as a geopolitical strategy.” Her second book, How to Be A Woman Online (Bloomsbury, 2022), an examination of online abuse and disinformation, along with practical advice for pushing back, was deemed “essential” by Publisher’s Weekly.

Jankowicz’s expertise spans the public, private, and academic sectors. She is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the American Sunlight Project, a bipartisan initiative aimed at increasing the cost of lies that undermine democracy. She has advised governments, international organisations, and technology companies; given evidence before the United States Congress, UK Parliament, and European Parliament; and led accessible, actionable research into the effects of disinformation on women, minorities, democratic activists, and freedom of expression around the world.

In 2022, Jankowicz was appointed to lead the Disinformation Governance Board, an inter-agency entity for best practice and coordination at the US Department of Homeland Security. She resigned after a sustained disinformation campaign led the Biden Administration to abandon the project. Between 2017 and 2022, she held fellowships at the Wilson Center, where she was affiliated with both the Kennan Institute and the Science and Technology Innovation Program. In 2016–17, she advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on disinformation and strategic communications through a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. Prior to her Fulbright award, she managed democracy assistance programmes for Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute.

Jankowicz holds a Master’s degree from the Centre for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She is a proud alumna of Bryn Mawr College, where she studied Political Science and Russian, graduating magna cum laude. She is fluent in Russian and speaks proficient Ukrainian and Polish. In her spare time, she enjoys performing in local musical theatre productions and hiking. She lives just outside Washington, DC with her husband, son, and cat.