Péter Krekó is a visiting fellow with the Engaging Central Europe program of The German Marshall Fund of the United States, connected to the EU Horizon project AUTHLIB. His research project focuses on the social psychological processes of informational autocracies: regimes that can be successful through the manipulation of information. He is a social psychologist and political scientist with a strong interest in disinformation, political polarization, conspiracy theories, and malign foreign influence. He has published extensively on these topics in academic journals and the leading international press.
Péter is the director of the Political Capital Institute, a think tank in Budapest. It is currently the consortium leader for the Hungarian Digital Media Observatory, an anti-disinformation hub supported by the European Commission under the umbrella of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO). He is member of the EDMO Expert Group on Structural Indicators for the Code of Practice on Disinformation
Péter is an associate professor (with habilitation) at the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences in Budapest, in the Department of Social Psychology and the Disinformation and Artificial Intelligence research lab. Earlier, he was a guest researcher with the Europe’s Futures—Ideas for Action program of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, a nonresident associate fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Institute of Policy Research, and a PopBack Fellow at the University of Cambridge. In 2016-2017, he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor in the United States at the Central Eurasian Studies Department of Indiana University.
Anna Wójcik is a visiting fellow with the Engaging Central Europe program of The German Marshall Fund of the United States. She is an expert on democracy, the rule of law, and human rights, with a particular focus on Poland. She holds a PhD in law from the Polish Academy of Sciences and gained extensive experience in international research consortia. Her thesis analyzed the limitations to freedom of expression in the name of historical policy from the perspective of international human rights law. She is assistant professor at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (currently on leave). She was a Re:Constitution research fellow at the Democracy Institute of Central European University and a ReThink.CEE Fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Anna is a co-founder of the rule-of-law monitoring projects The Wiktor Osiatyński Archive and Rule of Law in Poland. Prior to that she was assistant editor at Visegrád Insight. She also covers the rule-of-law backsliding in Poland for OKO.press, a public-interest journalism portal, comments on this issue for international media outlets, and provides expertise to think tanks and nongovernmental organizations.
Dorka Takácsy is a visiting fellow with the Engaging Central Europe program of The German Marshall Fund of the United States. She pursues her PhD studies at the Corvinus University of Budapest, researching Russian domestic disinformation about the West, and she is a research fellow at the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy, focusing on disinformation. She was a Marcin Król Fellow at Visegrád Insight in 2022-2023 and a Széll Kálmán Public Policy Fellow of the Hungary Foundation in 2018.
Dorka holds an MA in international relations from Central European University and a BA in international business from the Budapest Business School and the University of Picardy Jules Verne. She also studied at the ICHEC Brussels Management School, at the Pushkin State Language Institute in Moscow, and George Mason University in the United States as well. She gained professional experience at, among others, the European Parliament, the Political Capital Institute in Budapest, and the National Defense University in Washington. She is fluent in Russian, English, German, French, and Italian besides her mother tongue Hungarian, and she is learning Croatian.