Viera Žúborová is a political scientist. In her work she focuses on the themes of populism, extremism, social movements, civil society, political communication and hate speech. In the past, she was a senior research fellow at the Center for European and North Atlantic Affairs (CENAA) in Bratislava and a scholar-in-residence at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) at Oxford University. Currently, she works as a development manager at the investigative newsroom CORRECTIV, where she is implementing an exile media project called Radio Sakharov.