He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, where he co-directs the Arena program.

[4] In 1978, he moved with his parents to West Germany, after his father, broadcaster and poet Igor Pomerantsev, was arrested by the KGB for distributing anti-Soviet literature.

He "jumped jobs" between think tanks and was a consultant on European Union projects until he went to film school.

"[6] Pomerantsev was project chair for the Information Warfare Initiative of the Center for European Policy Analysis.

[15] In a short animated film on BBC Newsnight, Pomerantsev introduced the idea of the "post-modern politician".

[16] He developed related themes in pieces for Granta and the Financial Times, where he argued that fact-driven political discourse is connected to the idea of a future.

[18] In a 2014 essay for The Atlantic, "The Menace on Unreality" on the Kremlin's Hall of Mirrors, Pomerantsev explored how information warfare has changed in the 21st century.

Now I am not sure if I want to be," Pomerantsev illustrated the complexity of English identity by his experiences as a Russian-speaking immigrant who was brought from the Soviet Ukraine to the United Kingdom as a child.

[21] British society, in his view, is prone to deep differentiations according to classes, schools, accents, ethnic origins, religions, and political affiliations.

However, he thinks of himself as European in the narrow meaning of the EU project rather than an "English Remainer," while speaking against Brexit in the essay.