Alex’s primary research interest is political extremism and its reportage on social media. He also manages CASM’s analytics capability, including data collection, analytics and visualisation. He is a frequent media commentator, and writes regularly for the Huffington Post and Spectator. He led Demos’ project mapping the political Twittersphere ahead of the 2015 General Election and co-authored the report, Counter-speech: examining content that challenges extremism online. Before joining CASM, Alex worked at Accenture Digital in visual analytics.

Arno has led Kauppalehti, Finland’s number one business daily, since 2012. In this role, he has championed new ways of consuming economic journalism by creating a multimedia, multichannel news source.

Becky has been a journalist since 1990, working mainly as an editor in both print and digital media. She has held several senior editorial posts, including editor of the Big Issue and comment editor at the Guardian (2010-14). She is currently Editor for the Guardian’s ‘The Web We Want’ series and is a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.

David created a series of step-changing campaigns during his 13-year advertising career. In 2006, David became International Campaign Director at The Climate Group, working with the likes of Marks & Spencer’s, o2 and Tesco to develop their consumer engagement strategies on sustainability. Since setting up Behaviour Change he has gained a reputation as a leading strategic thinker and researcher on tackling challenging behaviours.

James is an innovation director at Vizeum, the media planning and buying agency, where he advises his clients on their advertising strategies. He also spearheads Vizeum’s Spark programme, an initiative to help solve brands' business problems by bringing them together with UK tech start-ups. In March 2016 he was a speaker at the SXSW Interactive festival on the topic of ad blocking.

Kath has held a range of senior leadership roles in fundraising and communications in both charities and higher education, including King’s College London & King’s Health Partners, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, the NSPCC and ChildLine. She is a Trustee of the Institute of Fundraising and before joining the charity sector, Kath was General Manager at London's Bloomsbury Theatre.

Pete has been leading in-house brand and marketing communications teams and departments at major companies for more than ten years, including MORE TH>N, Post Office and Aviva. Pete has consistently appeared in Marketing Magazine’s annual ‘Power 100’ feature as one of the leading marketers in his field, and was named ‘CMO of the Year’ by Drum Magazine.

Before turning his attention to investigative journalism in early 2015, Jim spent 12 years designing and running climate change campaigns for Greenpeace across the world. As Investigations Director at Greenpeace UK, he manages a team of four investigative journalists and three news reporters engaged in finding and telling compelling environmental news stories with the aim of changing the debate on issues relevant to the work of Greenpeace.

As Project Lead for Events & Paralympics at Channel 4, Lara is responsible for the coverage of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and the supporting programmes. Prior to joining Channel 4, she was a factual producer/director and series producer across the independent sector.