Ika Trijsburg is Director of Urban Analytics at the ANU Institute for Infrastructure in Society in the Crawford School for Public Policy and Head of Democracy and Diplomacy at Municipal Association of Victoria. She also holds a Visiting Fellowship with the German Marshall Fund of the United States and is a Research Associate with the Initiative for Peacebuilding at the University of Melbourne.

Ika draws on diverse sector expertise to address complex challenges to democracy. She leads the Disinformation in the City project across five Australian universities, which she initiated within the Melbourne Centre for Cities. She was lead author of the world first Disinformation in the City Response Playbook in 2024, co-created with 40 cross-sector experts globally. Ika has provided policy guidance to key actors globally including cities, national governments, G7 RRM, Council of Europe and UN-HABITAT.