Sophie L. Vériter • Oxford Graduate Academic Public Speaker

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When we connect and exchange ideas, not only do we learn, we create new networks. New systems. New communities.

In that moment, we glimpse the world not just through our own eyes, but through those of everyone else in the room.

About Sophie

Sophie Vériter is a PhD researcher in Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University (Campus The Hague), where her research examines the latest developments in strategic communication and counter-misinformation policies, in particular in Europe.

Sophie is broadly interested in the relationship between information, technology, and democracy, and the narratives that surrounds information governance. She has been a Europaeum Scholar as well as a Fellow at The Hague Program on International Cyber Security and the Global Governance Institute.

From 2016 to 2018, she designed and launched the ‘Young European Ambassadors’ initiative for the EU’s largest public diplomacy campaign (EU OPEN Neighbourhood).

Sophie holds a MPhil in European Politics and Society from the University of Oxford and a BA (summa cum laude) from the Brussels School of Governance.

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Recent Engagements

In the past 10 years, Sophie has spoken at 80+ events ranging from academic conferences to school visits and client briefings, with audiences up to 5000+ people.

Gamifying Democracy, Athens Democracy Forum, Democracy and Culture Foundation and The New York Times; speaker, Athens, October 2024.

“Beyond Order and Disorder: Embracing Complexity in the Global Information System”, International Studies Association Annual Conference; panellist, San Francisco, April 2024.

“World Forum for Democracy”, Council of Europe; speaker, Strasbourg, November 2023.

“Europaeum Conference: Leadership in European Policy”, Freie Universität; panelist, Berlin, September 2023.

“Diplomatic Studies and International Relations”, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy”, International Studies Association Annual Conference; panelist, Montréal, March 2023.

“New Horizons in Journalism Conference”, World Press Institute; panelist, Sofia, December 2022.

“Europe Through the Lens of its Young Citizens”, House of European History; panelist, Brussels, May 2022.

“Strategic Consequences of the War in Ukraine”, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Institut Français, Leiden University, University of Bonn; moderator, The Hague (online), March 2022.

“Disinformation and online platform regulations”, NATO Civil-Military Centre of Excellence; speaker, The Hague, November 2021.

“The state of youth opinion on Europe”, European Parliamentary Research Service; panelist, Brussels (online), November 2021.

“What do European citizens want the EU to be?”, Annual Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University; respondent, Oxford (online), April 2021.

Recorded Talks

In 2023, I was invited to participate in the World Forum for Democracy organised by the Council of Europe. I presented ‘Level Up: We Gamify Democracy’, the project I developed with eight other PhD researchers as a Europaeum Scholar.