# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yascha-mounk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:57:57.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yascha-mounk"
name: "Yascha Mounk"
slug: "yascha-mounk"
description: "Yascha Benjamin Mounk is a German and American political scientist, academic, and author. He is Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. In July 2020, he founded Persuasion, an online magazine devoted to defending the values of free societies."
tagline: "German-American political scientist"
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  isoCode: "DE"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1982-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.682625333333334
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Yascha_Mounk"
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    title: "Yascha Mounk"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yascha Mounk"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump