Dr. Azadeh Akbari is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa.
Dr. Azadeh Akbari is a Professor of Critical Data & Surveillance Studies at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C³S) 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 Surveillance Studies Network and the founder and director of Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network. She is an associate editor at the journals Surveillance & Society and Information Technology for Development. Dr. Akbari was formerly Assistant Professor of Digital Transformation at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands, and an EU Marie Skłodowska-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.