Dmitri Teperik is an independent senior policy expert and development trainer on societal resilience, FIMI, crisis communication, and civil security. He was a research fellow at the ICDS and then served as the centre’s chief executive until 2023. He has over 10 years of experience in contributing as a director or a leading subject matter expert to various international research projects, interdisciplinary studies, development cooperation programmes, professional training and outreach activities on comprehensive resilience and complex measures against hostile foreign influence and disinformation. During 2016-23, he also led the “Resilient Ukraine” development cooperation programme, which focused on assessing and strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities in Ukraine. He holds an MSc degree from the University of Tartu.
