Peter Pomerantsev

Peter Pomerantsev is Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Agora Institute, where he co-directs the Arena Initiative, a research and teaching project dedicated to overcoming the challenges of authoritarian propaganda.

His book on Russian propaganda, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, was nominated for the Samuel Johnson, Guardian First Book, Pushkin House and Gordon Burn Prizes. His 2019 book, This is Not Propaganda, a round-the-world journey into contemporary disinformation operations, won the Gordon Burn Prize was a Times Book of the Year. His most recent book, released in 2025, is How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler. It was the 2024 Sunday Times Book of the Year on World Affairs. Peter won the 2022 European Press Prize for his essay on ‘Memory in the Time of Impunity’, which proposed how a new generation of democratic media can challenge dictatorships.