Elīna Lange-Ionatamišvili is a Senior Expert at the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence in Riga, Latvia where her work focuses on influence operations in the Nordic-Baltic region, strategic communications terminology, and the future of information environment. She has been a defence civil servant for eight years, four of which she spent in Georgia running a NATO trust fund for professional development and reform support. Her previous jobs include heading the Public Diplomacy Division at the Ministry of Defence of Latvia and working on public diplomacy projects under the NATO Riga Summit 2006 Task Force. She holds MA in Communication Science (2006) and MA in Audio-Visual and Stage Arts (2020) specialising in documentary film. Currently Elina is a Ph.D. student at the King’s College London, War Studies Department, researching the role of memory construction in strategic communications.