Anāhitā Diamond’s academic research examines information, power and narrative: how states shape information environments, how emerging technologies alter them, and what happens when reliable information is scarce, contested or deliberately manipulated.
Diamond studied at King’s College London and UC Santa Barbara. At King’s, she received the President’s Global Leadership Award and completed the Associateship of King’s College (AKC) alongside her degree.
In 2021, she was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist (Global) before attending Balliol College, Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar. Her research was additionally supported by the Cecil Spring-Rice Memorial Fund, Oxford’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Balliol’s David Kevan Lloyd Fund.
At Oxford, she served as Balliol’s Equalities Officer, sat on the University’s Committee on Library Provision and Strategy, and was a Journal Editor at the Oxford Middle East Review.
Her subsequent research has included the University of Melbourne’s Disinformation Expert Forum and the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum’s Young Leaders’ Initiative (2023), the Oxford Disinformation & Extremism Lab (2024), and work as a Disinformation Domain Expert for OpenAI, testing new systems for safety risks and vulnerabilities.
In 2026, she was selected for the Aspen Institute UK Rising Leaders programme.