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Olga is the Director of the Emerging Technologies Initiative at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where she is also a professor focused on technology policy, trust and safety, and disinformation and influence. At Facebook/Meta, she led policy for countering influence operations, 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 led threat intelligence work on Russia and Eastern Europe at Facebook, identifying, tracking, and disrupting coordinated IO campaigns, 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 serves on the review board for CYBERWARCON, the Trust & Safety Advisory Group of the Institute for Security and Technology, and the board of directors for the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA). She is originally from Ukraine and is a graduate of Boston University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).