Michael E. van Landingham is an independent researcher through his firm Active Measures, LLC. Until 2019 he was a U.S. government intelligence analyst with experience working on high-profile assessments, including as the lead author of the 2017 ICA about Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election. He specializes in political analysis of Russian leadership, Russian intelligence services, and contemporary Russian society, as well as the intersection of cyberespionage and counterintelligence. He gave the talk "Oil into the Fire" at CYBERWARCON 2025.
