Dmitri Teperik

Dmitri Teperik has over 15 years of top-level experience contributing as a director or a leading subject-matter expert to a range of international research projects, interdisciplinary studies, development cooperation programmes, professional trainings, and outreach activities on comprehensive resilience and complex measures against foreign hostile influence and disinformation.

He has conducted research into a number of key areas, including the socio-psychological factors that shape national identity, societal resilience and cohesion, cognitive security, future literacy, cross-sectoral crisis management, media consumption, situational awareness in an information environment, and the interdependencies between strategic communication and civic behaviour patterns. His principal areas of interest are Ukraine, the Baltic states and post-communist countries in Eastern Europe.

In 2016, Dmitri Teperik was a co-founder of the international training and cooperation platform Resilience League, which focused on equipping young professionals and experts with practical skills and tools for developing cognitive resilience against hostile disinformation, societal polarisation and harmful radicalisation.

Dmtiri Teperik holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Tartu, Estonia, and has participated in a number of professional advanced training programmes in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, as well as in NATO and EU programmes.

Dmitri Teperik has authored over 70 publications, including policy reports, articles, analytical studies, and others, on a range of topics related to societal resilience, disinformation, media and information literacy, strategic communication, and civil security.