Biography
Ben O’Loughlin is Professor of International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he has directed the New Political Communication Unit since 2006. His work on strategic narrative, on how states and other actors tell stories about international affairs in order to shape behaviour, won the International Studies Association’s best book award in 2016. He was specialist adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on Soft Power, and has been Thinker in Residence on democracy and disinformation at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium since 2019. He co-edits the AI Politics book series at Intellect and the University of Chicago Press.