Ivo Bosilkov is an assistant professor at the School of Political Science and Psychology at the University American College in Skopje. He holds a joint-degree PhD in political science from the Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies at the University of Milan and the Amsterdam School of Communication Research at the University of Amsterdam. The topic of his PhD dissertation was the effects of exposure to immigration news on the populist attitudes of Macedonian citizens. He is a former research fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Stud-ies at the University of Graz.