Julia Ebner

Born in Vienna in 1991, Julia Ebner is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in London, where she leads projects on online extremism, disinformation and hate speech. She is the author of two award-winning international bestsellers: Going Dark and The Rage. She has given evidence to numerous governments and parliamentary working groups, and has acted as a consultant for the UN, NATO, and the World Bank. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, Newsweek, Politico and Süddeutsche Zeitung, among other publications, and she regularly contributes to broadcast news stories. Ebner holds a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford and is a Research Fellow at Oxford's Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion.