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Michael BerkMichael Berk - with over 20 years of military and security experience in protecting critical infrastructures, Michael focuses on the integration of physical, information and human security concepts and operations. Having worked in corporate, government and think-tank environments focusing on international security, policy development and business operations, he possesses a unique cross-sector understanding of the modern security challenges and existing approaches to addressing them. Between 2014-2017, he managed an international program that focused on providing Eurasian governments (FSU region) with capacity building support related to ICT and information security policy development. Among other activities, he was part of international expert teams that assisted governments of Ukraine and Armenia with developing their national information security strategies. Since 2016, as a Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Cyber Security and International Relations, University of Florence, he has been a member of the OSCE Academic Steering Group on confidence building measures in cyberspace, which develops recommendations to enhance transparency and cooperation in cyberspace. With a military background in CIMIC and PsyOps, he was engaged in fall 2017 as a Lead Consultant on a comprehensive study on propaganda campaigns and information operations for a major international strategic communications firm and its military client. More recently, he completed a chapter analysing the 2015 UN GGE recommendations for critical infrastructure protection norms published by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs in March 2018. In summer 2018, he will join the Department of Information Security and Digital Forensics at the State University of New York at Albany as a Visiting Scholar to conduct research on cyber warfare and information operations.
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Alicia WanlessAlicia Wanless is an internationally recognized researcher of information warfare and strategic communications in a digital age. With more than a decade of experience in researching and analysing the information environment, focusing on propaganda and disinformation, Alicia conducts content and network analysis, and has developed original models for identifying and analysing digital propaganda campaigns. Alicia applies this learning to integrating information activities in support of government and military training exercises. Since 2017 alone, she shared her work and insights with senior government, military and academic experts at Wilton Park, Oxford and Ryerson Universities, the Hedayah Centre, NATO’s ARRC and the Multi National Information Operations Experiment, the NATO-USSOCOM Joint Senior PsyOps Conference, the UK’s JIAG, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Alicia’s work has been featured in the CBC, Forbes, and The Strategy Bridge, and she has co-authored numerous academic papers and chapters related to propaganda including on: Strategic Leaking, Propaganda and Journalism; Participatory Propaganda; and Clicktavism. Alicia is currently a PhD Researcher at King’s College in London exploring alternative frameworks for understanding the information environment.
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