Georgios Terzis is a Senior Resident Fellow at the European Centre for Global Education. He is also Associate Professor in Communications at the Brussels School of Governance, VUB. George carried out postdoctoral research at University of Pennsylvania and University of Oxford on media and security, received his Ph.D. in Communication Science from the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel, and studied Journalism and Mass Communication in Greece, UK, the US, and The Netherlands.
His expertise lies in media and security, disinformation and media literacy, research and media ethics, media and governance, risk and crisis communication, science diplomacy, the role of art and culture in conflict resolution, and cultural diplomacy. He has been teaching and doing research in communication departments of many universities around the world for more than 25 years. He has been involved in more than 20 international research projects and networks and he has been WPL and a member of the Coordinator’s team for the past years in three FP7 and Horizon projects, namely Infocore, EL-CSID and RePast. His is also currently a member of the coordinator’s team of the EU funded project EDMO BeLux ,the European Digital Media Observatory for Belgium and Luxembourg, a hub for research on digital media and disinformation. George is also the founding Chair of the Journalism Studies Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association, and has been working as a reviewer for most of the major publishing houses and journals in the communication science field, as well as for the European Commission and the Council of Europe.