Jussi Toivanen

Jussi Toivanen is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. His research focuses on developing methods to anticipate future threats arising in the cyber and information domains, with particular emphasis on how cyber and influence operations increasingly converge and reinforce each other in the hands of malign actors within AI augmented digital societies.

Toivanen has a long background in Finnish government preparedness activities and crisis and strategic communications. Currently he works as Head of Communications at the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-FI), where he leads the Centre’s communications.

Before joining the NCSC-FI in 2022, he worked ten years at the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office, where he coordinated central government (ministries) level responses to hostile influence operations and contributed to the development of concepts and methods to counter such threats targeting Finland.

Toivanen is also an experienced lecturer and has appeared as an expert both in Finland and abroad, including on international news media such as CNN, BBC, The Telegraph, The Guardian, ZDF, Asahi TV and RAI UNO.

Toivanen holds two Master’s degrees from the University of Turku (Finland): Master of Arts in Digital Culture and Master of Social Sciences in Contemporary History.

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