Jakub Kalenský is Deputy Director of Hybrid CoE’s Community of Interest on Hybrid Influence, focusing on disinformation and efforts to counter it. He joined the Centre in 2022.
Jakub has specialised in disinformation and Russian hybrid threat activities since 2015, when he joined the newly created East StratCom Task Force within the European Union’s diplomatic service, the EEAS. Jakub was responsible for raising awareness in the team of Russia’s disinformation campaigns, and he and his colleagues founded the EUvsDisinfo campaign. Between 2018 and 2021 Jakub worked in the Atlantic Council’s Ukrainian Election Task Force and in the Digital Forensic Research Lab. He authored reports and articles on Russian disinformation attacks and the countermeasures against them, and testified in the European Parliament, the US Congress, and other legislative bodies in Europe on the same topic.
Jakub has been a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Natolin) since 2024. Before specialising in countering disinformation Jakub worked as a journalist in the Czech Republic.
