Peter Pomerantsev
Advisory Board
Peter Pomerantsev is an award-winning author and Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Agora Institute, where he co-directs the Arena Initiative, a research and teaching project dedicated to overcoming the challenges of authoritarian propaganda
His book on Russian propaganda, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and was nominated for the Samuel Johnson, Guardian First Book, Pushkin House and Gordon Burn Prizes. His 2019 book, This is Not Propaganda, a round-the-world journey into contemporary disinformation operations, won the Gordon Burn Prize and was a Times Book of the Year. His most recent book, released in 2025, is How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler. It was the 2024 Sunday Times Book of the Year on World Affairs.
Peter won the 2022 European Press Prize for his essay on ‘Memory in the Time of Impunity’, which proposed how a new generation of democratic media can challenge dictatorships. He was a 2022 Emmerson Collective Fellow, a generous award for outstanding experts whose work supports democracy in the US, which he used to research how American media can improve communication around historical topics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Peter has testified on the challenges of information war and media development to the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the UK Parliament Defense Select Committee. He was a specialist advisor on the ‘UK Parliamentary Committee on Fake News’ and was a member of USC Annenberg’s ‘Transatlantic Working Group on Internet Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression’. A former documentary film-maker, he continues to present podcast series for BBC Radio 4 and The Atlantic.