Olga Belogolova
Lecturer
Director, Emerging Technologies Initiative
Faculty Co-Lead, Technology and Innovation Focus Area
About
Olga is the Director of the Emerging Technologies Initiative at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She is also a professor at the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at SAIS, where she teaches a course on disinformation and influence in the digital age.
At Facebook/Meta, she led policy for countering influence operations, coordinating the company's IO disruptions effort and leading execution and development of policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior, state media capture, and hack-and-leaks within the Trust and Safety team. Prior to that, she was a threat intelligence analyst at Facebook, identifying, tracking, and disrupting coordinated IO campaigns, leading work on Russia and Eastern Europe and in particular, the Internet Research Agency investigations between 2017-2019.
Olga previously worked as a journalist and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Journal, Inside Defense, and The Globe and Mail, among others.
She holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and European Studies from Boston University. She is a fellow with the Truman National Security Project.
At Facebook/Meta, she led policy for countering influence operations, coordinating the company's IO disruptions effort and leading execution and development of policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior, state media capture, and hack-and-leaks within the Trust and Safety team. Prior to that, she was a threat intelligence analyst at Facebook, identifying, tracking, and disrupting coordinated IO campaigns, leading work on Russia and Eastern Europe and in particular, the Internet Research Agency investigations between 2017-2019.
Olga previously worked as a journalist and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Journal, Inside Defense, and The Globe and Mail, among others.
She holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and European Studies from Boston University. She is a fellow with the Truman National Security Project.
In the News
With His Promises of Peace Unmet in Gaza and Ukraine, Trump May Find Iran Just as Tough
The Washington Post, April 16
Why Russia's Broadcaster RT Turned to Covertly Funding American Pro-Trump Influencers
National Public Radio, September 26, 2024
Tenet Media Posts Still Online, Despite U.S. Claims of Russian Influence Campaign
Reuters, September 6, 2024