Dr Garvan Walshe is a political strategist and entrepreneur. He is the founder of the pro-democracy AI company Article7 Strategies and co-founder of Unhack Democracy, which works to build an entrepreneurial civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. He writes regularly for international news outlets and is a research associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies as well as an affiliated researcher at the CEU’s Democracy Institute in Budapest. Before Brexit, he was a foreign policy adviser to the British Conservative Party and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.