Misha Glenny

Misha Glenny is the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, one of Austria’s leading advanced research institutes. A former BBC Central Europe Correspondent who covered the revolutions in Eastern Europe and the wars in the former Yugoslavia, Misha is a sought-after keynote speaker on the geopolitics of cybersecurity and organised crime. His best-selling non-fiction book, McMafia — about the globalisation of organised crime – was adapted into a major TV drama series on BBC One and AMC. Misha followed this up with Dark Market: How Hackers Became the New Mafia.

An alumnus of the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. and the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles, he has taught as a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, Columbia University, and University College London. He has contributed to the Financial Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian and newspapers, magazines, and academic journals around the world.