Jakub Kalenský is the Deputy Director of the Centre’s Hybrid Influence COI, focusing on disinformation and efforts to counter this threat. He also joined the Centre of Excellence in 2022. Jakub has specialised in disinformation and Russian hybrid activities since 2015, when he joined the newly created East StratCom Task Force within the European Union’s diplomatic service, the EEAS. In the team, Jakub was responsible for raising awareness of Russia’s disinformation campaigns, founding the EUvsDisinfo campaign with his colleagues. Between 2018 and 2021, Jakub worked in the Atlantic Council’s Ukrainian Election Task Force and in the Digital Forensic Research Lab. He authored several 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. Since 2024, Jakub has been a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Natolin). Before specialising in countering disinformation, Jakub worked as a journalist in the Czech Republic.