Heidi Tworek
Biography:
HEIDI TWOREK is a Canada Research Chair and Professor of History and Public Policy at the University of British Columbia, where she directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Her work explores how new communications technologies affect democracy in the past and present, and she bridges scholarship and public policy on democracy, digital platforms and global communication.
She is the author of the award-winning News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945 (Harvard University Press, 2019), which received the Ernst Fraenkel, Ralph Gomory and David Barclay book prizes. She has co-edited four other books, including The Interwar World (Routledge, 2023) and Global Platform Governance (Bloomsbury, 2026), and co-edits the Journal of Global History. Her writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Globe and Mail and The Conversation, among others.
Heidi is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and a non-resident fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. She is a board chair and co-founder of Digital Action and the Global Platform Governance Research Network, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She holds a doctorate in history from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Cambridge.
Source: https://www.heiditworek.com/
Activities:
- 2025-05-01 – Social Media Disinformation: How to Prevent, Identify, and Combat
- 2025-06-18 – Disinformation Roundtable