Alicia Wanless is the director of the Information Environment Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which helps governments and other stakeholders to improve policymaking by better understanding how national information ecosystems work. Alicia is the author of The Information Animal: Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality. In the past, Alicia created a multistakeholder network in partnership with the G7 Rapid Response Network to support information integrity efforts in Ukraine. Alicia was a technical advisor to Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder and is a founding member of its Global Cybersecurity Group. Alicia is a visiting researcher at the Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour in the University of Bath's School of Management. At King’s College London in War Studies, she completed her PhD combining strategic theory and ecology in a new approach to understanding conflict within the information environment.