Peter Pomerantsev is a British writer and journalist of Ukrainian origin and a leading researcher on modern propaganda, disinformation, and information warfare.
He was born in Kyiv to a poet, journalist, and dissident, Igor Pomerantsev. As a child, he emigrated with his parents to West Germany and later to the United Kingdom.
Today, he is a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and co-director of the Arena program, which studies disinformation and digital polarization. Previously, he held similar positions at the London School of Economics. He is also the author of the books Nothing Is True, and Everything Is Possible and This Is Not Propaganda, both of which have received prestigious international awards.
His latest book, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler (2024), received the Book of the Year award in international affairs from The Sunday Times.
Pomerantsev is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, one of the oldest and most prestigious literary associations in the United Kingdom.
He has advised parliamentary committees in the United Kingdom and the United States on issues of information security and propaganda. Pomerantsev has contributed strategic recommendations on counter-propaganda and media pluralism for governments and civil society organizations. He regularly delivers seminars and lectures at universities and on public policy and international platforms.
Following the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Pomerantsev became a co-founder of the international initiative The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies, which documents war crimes and addresses issues of accountability and justice. He specializes in the study of media and propaganda in contemporary Russia, a focus shaped in part by his earlier professional experience. In the past, Pomerantsev worked as a documentary filmmaker, and he continues to produce documentary projects and podcast series for BBC Radio 4 and The Atlantic.
He holds a master’s degree from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD from King's College London.
