Cambridge disinformation summit (2026)

Scientific Committee members

The Scientific Committee includes:

Anat Admati
The George GC Parker Professor of Finance and Economics
Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Imran Ahmed
CEO
Center for Countering Digital Hate

Henry Aider
Founder
Latent Space Advisory

Brad Badertscher
Deloitte Professor of Accountancy
University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business

Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Professor of History and Italian Studies
New York University School of Arts and Sciences

Beth Blankespoor
Professor of Accounting and Marguerite Reimers Endowed Faculty Fellow
University of Washington Foster School of Business

Emma Briant
Visiting Associate Professor 
University of Notre Dame Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society

Meredith Clark
Associate Professor of Race and Political Communication
University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media

Yonca Ertimur
Tandean Rustandy Esteemed Endowed Professor
University of Colorado Leeds School of Business

Alan Jagolinzer
Professor of Financial Accounting
Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting and Accountability
University of Cambridge Judge Business School

Christian Leuz
Charles F Pohl Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting and Finance
University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Stephan Lewandowsky
Chair in Cognitive Psychology
University of Bristol School of Psychological Science

Oliver Linton
Professor of Political Economy and Fellow of Trinity College
University of Cambridge

Kelvin Low
Professor of Law
The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law

Alice Marwick
Director of Research, Data & Society Research Institute
Senior Faculty Researcher, Center for Information, Technology and Public Life (CITAP)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Gina Neff
Professor of Responsible AI
Queen Mary University London
Executive Director
University of Cambridge Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy

Loriana Pelizzon
Deputy Scientific Director, Director Department of Financial Markets
SAFE/Goethe University
Co-Vice-Chair of the Advisory Scientific Committee
European Systemic Risk Board

Shiva Rajgopal
Roy Bernard Kester and TW Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing
Columbia Business School

Yoel Roth
Vice President Trust and Safety
Match Group

Marietje Schaake
International Policy Director
Stanford University Cyber Policy Center

Jake Shapiro
Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs

Chester Spatt
Pamela R and Kenneth B Dunn Professor of Finance
Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business
Former Chief Economist
US Securities and Exchange Commission

Kate Starbird
Professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering
University of Washington Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering

David Stillwell
Professor of Computational Social Science
Director of the Psychometrics Centre
University of Cambridge Judge Business School

Eric Talley
Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business
Columbia Law School

Shannon Vallor
Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence
Director, Centre for Technomoral Futures
University of Edinburgh Futures Institute

Sander van der Linden
Professor of Social Psychology in Society
University of Cambridge Department of Psychology

Information about the keynote speakers will be released later. Please check back for more information.

Call for papers

Papers from any discipline or research methods will be considered that relate to the summit’s theme:

Research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation.

Potential research focus might include (but is not limited to) the effects on global systemic economic, health, environmental, migration, human rights or human conflict risk from:

• social media message feed algorithms that amplify disinformation or suppress evidence-based narratives
• search advertising algorithms that incentivize expanded reach of disinformation or suppression of evidence-based narratives
• artificial intelligence information errors, bias, or corruption
• crypto and meme asset trading, based on disinformation or to facilitate laundering
• psychological addiction or radicalization inspired by artificially created or algorithmically amplified disinformation

Disinformation occurs when actors intentionally disseminate misleading narratives through selected dissemination channels to fulfill financial, power, physical or social-psychological incentives to exploit targeted audiences. 

Systemic risk is defined as the potential for major or whole-system failure due to interconnected, cascading or spill-over effects from threats or events. In financial contexts, it, like systematic risk, cannot be mitigated through diversification.

Papers will be selected by the scientific committee to be invited for presentation at the events in Cambridge UK.

Priority will be given to newer working papers that can both inform and be informed by the Summit’s interdisciplinary audience.

To submit [17 September 2025 through 11:59 PM BST on 15 November 2025]:

1. Pay the £25 per paper submission fee. 
2. Email your submission in .pdf format, including the names of the authors and affiliations.

Submissions will not be considered without the fee payment that helps offset administrative costs. Need-based fee reductions will be considered for those who email CFRA@jbs.cam.ac.uk with requests. Authors will be notified about their paper’s final selection status by the third week of December 2025.

For more information, reference the Summit website or email CFRA@jbs.cam.ac.uk.

The 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit is hosted by: the Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting and Accountability, the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy, the Cambridge Psychometrics Centre, and the University of Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab.