Camilla Monckton is Head of Strategic Communications in the UK Cabinet Office and leads on a program of work to counter disinformation by partnering with governments in Central & Eastern Europe to build strategic communications capability. As a Shorenstein fellow, she is looking at the implications of the transformed information environment on national security and the need to modernize communication structures to build resilience Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI), drawing on her experience working on allied coordination and strengthening of communications, including in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Her work on threats in the information environment began when advising the UK Anti-Slavery Commissioner amid Europe’s migration ‘crisis’ in 2015. Unfettered access to smartphones was transforming the way people moved and rapidly. Governments struggled to understand, adapt, and react. Monckton then started working as a consultant with Governments to help track, understand, and respond to migrant smugglers’ exploitative false narratives, working across West Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. She has worked with the UN, Governments, and think tanks on security and development challenges globally.