Cambridge Disinformation Summit (2027)

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23 Mar 2027

24 Mar 2027

25 Mar 2027

Time to be confirmed

By invitation only

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University of Cambridge

Cambridge

United Kingdom

Incentives and power infrastructure that support or amplify malign cognitive influence and disinformation campaigns

The 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit will convene multi-discipline global academic, legislator, regulator, and professional thought leaders to focus on incentives and power infrastructure that support or amplify malign cognitive influence and disinformation campaigns.

Call for Papers will open late Summer 2026. Papers will be selected by an interdisciplinary scientific committee.

Research and discussions will examine non-mutually-exclusive incentives regarding corrupt:

  • Power
  • Wealth accumulation
  • Physical gratification or control
  • Social-psychological benefits

Research and discussions will also examine power infrastructures that might include (but are not limited to):

  • Corporate structures
  • Media structures
  • Political structures
  • Use or threat of violence
  • Belief system structures
  • Social identity structures
  • Wealth transfers
  • Asymmetric law enforcement
  • Abuse of litigation

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 Adjer
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

Annie Farmer
Co-Founder
Pivot Psychology Austin

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

Michael Mann
Presidential Distinguished Professor
University of Pennsylvania Dept of Earth and Environmental Science

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

Joachim von Braun
President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
The Vatican

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