Cambridge Disinformation Summit

• Abdullahi Alim, Lead Africa & Middle East, Global Shapers Community, World Economic Forum
• Brad Badertscher, Deloitte & Touche Professor of Accountancy, University of Notre Dame
• Robert Bloomfield, Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Management, Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business
• Hui Chen, Professor of Accounting, University of Zurich
• Angus Crawford, Correspondent, BBC News
• Stephen Cushion, Director of Postgraduate Research, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University
• Mark de Rond, Professor of Organisational Ethnography, Cambridge Judge Business School
• Peter Easton, Director, Center for Accounting Research & Education, University of Notre Dame
• Michelle Ferrier, Executive Director, Media Innovation Collaboratory; Professor, FAMU School of Journalism & Graphic Communication; Founder of TrollBusters
• Duncan Green, Professor of Practice in International Development, London School of Economics; Senior Strategic Adviser, Oxfam GB
• Alan Jagolinzer, Professor of Financial Accounting, Co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability
• Stephen Jolly, Professeur Agrégé de Géopolitique, ESC Rennes School of Business, Grande École; Fellow Commoner, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge; former senior British Defence official and propagandist
• Brian Klaas, Associate Professor in Global Politics, University College London
• Sander van der Linden, Professor of Social Psychology in Society and Director, Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory, University of Cambridge
• Miriam Matthews, Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist, RAND Corporation
• Sarah McVay, Deloitte & Touche Endowed Professor in Accounting, University of Washington Foster School of Business
• Joseph Pierre, MD, Health Sciences Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles
• Rafael Rogo, Professor of Accounting, Co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability
• Jay Rosen, Associate Professor, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute & Director of Studio 20, New York University
• Thomas Roulet, University Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory, University of Cambridge Judge Business School
• Sunita Sah, Professor of Management Studies, Cambridge Judge Business School
• Marietje Schaake, International Policy Director, Stanford University Cyber Policy Center; International Policy Fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence; former Member of European Parliament.
• David Stillwell, Lecturer in Big Data Analytics and Quantitative Social Science, Cambridge Judge Business School; Academic Director, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge
• Ben Taylor, Global Climate Change and Sustainability Services Strategy Partner, EY London
• Kate Wilkinson, Deputy Chief Editor, Africa Check

The Advisory Board membership is evolving and subject to change.

Characteristics of Disinformation:

• Psychology of self-deception and wilful ignorance; why is there an audience for disinformation?
• Bias blind spot
• Elaboration likelihood model
• Conspiracy Theories
• Propaganda fire hose: how and why does it work?

Applications and Effects of Disinformation:

• Political or extremism movements
• Financial disinformation and capital market effects
• Greenwashing
• Healthcare

Combatting Disinformation:

• Journalism training and incentives
• Fact checking and attestation
• Freedom of speech laws
• Deprogramming
• Social media algorithms, terms of service, disclaimers, deletions, and terminations

The Summit topics are evolving and subject to change.

The Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability and the Psychometrics Centre are partnering with Mendoza College of Business, the Center for Accounting Research & Education, the University of Zurich and the Journal of Financial Reporting.

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