Nina Jankowicz is a Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute currently working on a book about the evolution of modern Russian influence campaigns in Eastern Europe. In 2016-2017, she advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. While in Ukraine, she undertook a research project on the response to Russian disinformation in Europe. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Project Syndicate, The Wilson Quarterly, and others. She is a frequent commentator on disinformation, and Russian and Eastern European affairs, and has been interviewed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and PBS’s Judy Woodruff.
Prior to her Fulbright grant in Ukraine, Ms. Jankowicz managed democracy assistance programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. She speaks fluent Russian and proficient Polish and Ukrainian.