Sophie L. Vériter is a PhD candidate in Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University, focusing on misinformation and counter-misinformation policies in Europe. She has been a Europaeum Scholar and a Fellow at The Hague Program on International Cyber Security and the Global Governance Institute. From 2016 to 2018, she launched the ‘Young European Ambassadors’ initiative for the EU’s largest public diplomacy campaign (EU OPEN Neighbourhood). Sophie holds an MPhil in European Politics and Society from the University of Oxford and a BA from the Brussels School of Governance.