Irina Tsukerman

President

Irina Tsukerman is a human rights and national security lawyer based in New York and a Fellow at the Arabian Peninsula Institute. She runs a boutique national security law practice. She is a Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. She is a member of the American Bar Association's Energy and Environment and Science and Technology Sections. She is the Program Vice Chair in the Oil and Gas Subcommittee. She is also a member of the New York City Bar Association's Middle East and North African Affairs Committee and an affiliate member of the Foreign & Comparative Law Committee. In addition, Irina Tsukerman is the President of Scarab Rising, Inc., a media and security strategic advisory, and the Editor-in-Chief of The Washington Outsider, a project of Scarab Rising, focused on foreign policy, geopolitics, security, and human rights. Irina hosts The Washington Outsider Report program on The Coalition Radio station, and frequently writes about world affairs in diverse US and international publications. She has appeared in the media all over the world as a geopolitical specialist dedicated to actionable analysis, and her writings and comments have been translated to over a dozen languages. Irina is a member of the editorial board of The Maghreb and Orient Courier. She is a member of the New York-based Foreign Policy Association. Irina specializes in information warfare; she has written and spoken extensively on active measures by Russia, China, and Iran and influence campaigns by Middle Eastern state actors, as well as on the impact of active measures and influence campaigns on the human rights and NGO world; she has also published on a wide range of global issues touching on energy, geostrategy, strategical alliances, Great Power competition and its impact on geopolitics, domestic policy, and business, information security and digital rights/cybersecurity, big tech, terrorism and extremism, as well as issues in intelligence and counterintelligence. Most recently, Irina was honored for her contributions as a woman leader and a global humanitarian at the World Humanitarian Drive's Trilateral Trade for Peace Conference in London. Her comments and writings have been translated into over a dozen languages; her latest major appearance was on Australia's #1 podcast the Red Line to discuss counterterrorism and economic warfare in Mozambique.
Irina just moderated a high profile panel on The Legal Framework for Understanding Information Warfare in Ukraine at the New York City Bar Association. She most recently presented at "Character Assassination, Illiberalism, and the Erosion of Civic Rights" conference by Character Assassination and Reputation Politics Lab (George Mason University) and University of Amsterdam. Irina was recently honored with a Certificate of Appreciation from Ukraine's Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security for her work in countering Russian disinformation.