Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies.

Please contact Elisabeth Siegel at elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk in advance to participate or with any questions. Remote attendance is possible, but in-person attendance is prioritized (and provided refreshment). Discussion topics will be finalized and optional readings will be sent out a week in advance. You do not currently have to be affiliated with the University of Oxford to attend and participate in discussions.

Speaker bio: Abid is a DPhil student at Oxford Internet Institute, Pembroke College, supervised by Prof. Vili Lehdonvirta. His research aims to understand Digital Industrial Policy and Digital Sovereignty in the context of geoeconomic rivalries. His DPhil research project is titled, “The Geoeconomics of Digital Industrial Policy in the US, EU, and UK: Examining Liberalism in the Age of Technological Rivalries”.

Abid is a Bakrie Scholar Fellow with a DPhil scholarship from the Bakrie Centre Foundation (BCF), Indonesia. Abid previously worked for Oxford Information Labs (OXIL). Abid is also a former President of Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia Oxford (PPI Oxford).

Prior to joining OII, Abid studied for a dual master’s degree in International Affairs at Sciences Po, Paris and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He earned his Bachelor of Social Science at the Department of International Relations, Universitas Indonesia. Abid is also a junior researcher at Abdurrahman Wahid Centre for Peace and Humanities, Universitas Indonesia (AWCPH UI).

He is also a co-founder of Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia at Universitas Indonesia (FPCI UI) and LSESU Association for International Peace and Security (LSESU AIPS).