James Pamment

James Pamment, PhD, is co-director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also associate professor of Strategic Communication at Lund University and a special adviser to the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats. His research is about how states influence one another, and he has consulted and trained for a variety of countries, international organisations and companies.

Pamment is the lead author of guidance such as “Counter Influence Strategies for Communicators” (MSB/ Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, 2018), the “RESIST Counter-Disinformation Toolkit” (UK Government Communication Service, 2019), and the “The 4S Model” for hybrid deterrence (European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, 2020). His Lund University team has provided training to thousands of civil servants in dozens of countries on countering disinformation and hybrid threats.

Pamment’s most recent academic book is British Public Diplomacy and Soft Power: Diplomatic Influence and Digital Disruption, which covers the evolution of British public diplomacy 1995 to 2015. His most recent edited book, Countering Online Propaganda and Violent Extremism (edited with Corneliu Bjola), assesses whether the lessons learned from countering violent extremism (CVE) initiatives can be adapted to countering influence operations. He is also co-editor-in-chief of the Place Branding and Public Diplomacy journal.