Olga Tokariuk

Open Society University Network Academy Fellow, Ukraine Forum, Russia and Eurasia Programme

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Biography

Olga Tokariuk is a Chatham House OSUN Academy Fellow in the Ukraine Forum where she is working on Ukraine-related projects.  

Olga’s background is in journalism, with a focus on international affairs, and in counter-disinformation research. She is a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford and a non-resident fellow at CEPA (Centre for European Policy Analysis). 


Her reports and op-eds have been featured in Ukrainian and international media such as TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, BBC, Monocle, EFE (Spain), ANSA (Italy). She worked on disinformation research projects for Oxford Analytica, Mythos Labs, Zinc and other organizations.  

Mrs Tokariuk is a frequent guest lecturer at various academic institutions including University of Oxford, Oxford Brookes University, University of Miami, etc. She holds an MA in political science and international relations from the University of Bologna and an MA in journalism from the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. 

Past experience

2022-23Journalist Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
2022-presentNon-Resident Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
2022-23Ukraine correspondent, freelance, Monocle