Dr. Azadeh Akbari is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa.鈥
Dr. Azadeh Akbari is a Professor of Critical Data & Surveillance Studies at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C鲁S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of digital transformation, digital authoritarianism, data justice, and ICTs for development.
Dr. Akbari is a director of and the founder and director of . She is an associate editor at the journals and . Dr. Akbari was formerly Assistant Professor of Digital Transformation at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands, and an EU Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Actions Global Fellow at the CSS/Lab at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society with a project on authoritarian smart cities. She appears frequently in international media and consults policy-makers and civil society on issues of surveillance and digital repression.