Dr. Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg
Expert on influence, misinformation, and AI
Cambridge PhD | Former Visiting Harvard & Princeton Fellow | Assistant Professor at CBS
Available for keynotes, advisory, and policy collaboration
Dr. Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg is Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School and a Cambridge-trained psychologist and expert on influence, misinformation, and AI. Her work focuses in particular on political communication, public trust, and democratic resilience.
She holds a PhD and MPhil in Psychology from the University of Cambridge, where she researched social influence and misinformation under Professor Sander van der Linden at the Social Decision-Making Lab, a leading centre for research on misinformation and social influence.
Her work examines how group dynamics, digital environments, and persuasive technologies shape beliefs, behaviour, and public trust, with a particular focus on strengthening resilience against misinformation and influence operations.
During her doctoral training, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard Business School, Princeton University, and the University of Copenhagen. She was also the inaugural Storytelling Fellow at University of the Arts London, where she explored how narrative and digital media can be leveraged for societal impact.
Dr. Traberg has published research in leading journals including Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, and The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She has contributed to global policy efforts on information integrity, including co-authoring work for the World Health Organization and advising NATO StratCom on detecting and countering foreign influence.
Her work has been presented at institutions such as MIT, Harvard, Princeton, NYU, and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as at the European Commission and national government ministries. She regularly advises policymakers and contributes to high-level security and policy forums, including the Norwegian National Security Authority’s Sikkerhetskonferansen.
She is also part of the Nordic-Baltic Cognitive Security Network and contributes to the Nordforsk-funded INFLU-NORD project on influence and information environments.
Contact: ces.digi@cbs.dk
Previous and upcoming speaking engagements include the European Commission, the Norwegian National Security Authority Conference, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation and the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science, the National Archives (UK), the Danish Cancer Society and secondary schools.
