Péter Krekó
He is a visiting fellow with the Engaging Central Europe program of The German Marshall Fund of the United States. 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. Krekó is the director of the Political Capital Institute. He is member of the EDMO Expert Group on Structural Indicators for the Code of Practice on Disinformation. He is an associate professor 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.
