About our speakers
Alexandra Goujon
Alexandra Goujon is a French political scientist specialising in Eastern Europe and a lecturer at the University of Burgundy. Her research focuses on social conflicts, nationalism, memory politics, and democratization in Ukraine and Belarus. Goujon has authored and contributed to several books and articles, including works on identity revolutions and citizen participation in Ukraine. Holding a PhD from Sciences Po Paris, she has been a visiting researcher at Harvard and is a member of the editorial board of Nationalities Papers.
Olga Tokariuk
Olga’s background is in journalism, with a focus on international affairs, and in counter-disinformation research. She is a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford and a non-resident fellow at CEPA (Centre for European Policy Analysis). Her reports and op-eds have been featured in Ukrainian and international media such as TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, BBC, Monocle, EFE (Spain), ANSA (Italy). She worked on disinformation research projects for Oxford Analytica, Mythos Labs, Zinc and other organizations. Mrs Tokariuk is a frequent guest lecturer at various academic institutions including University of Oxford, Oxford Brookes University, University of Miami, etc. She holds an MA in political science and international relations from the University of Bologna and an MA in journalism from the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv.
Melanie Garson
Dr Melanie Garson is cyber and tech geopolitics policy specialist and public speaker who connects the dots between new and emerging tech and its potential impact on security, foreign policy, diplomacy and the world order. She is an Associate Professor in International Security in the Department of Political Science at University College London where she teaches her flagship course “From Cyberwarfare to Robots: The Future of Conflict in the Digital Age.” She worked for four years as the Cyber Policy and Tech Geopolitics Lead at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, and is also a lawyer and mediator. Melanie regularly provides commentary in on geopolitics and tech in podcasts, webinars and at major media outlets including Bloomberg, BBC, Sky, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, France 24, and DeutscheWelle.
