Bio
Anja Kovacs is a CIGI senior fellow. She is currently an independent researcher and consultant, as well as a senior fellow at Research ICT Africa, South Africa and a non-resident CyberBRICS fellow at FGV (Fundação Getulio Vargas Getulio Vargas), Brazil. Previously, she was the founder director of the Internet Democracy Project, India. Her research has focused on understanding, developing and realizing feminist visions of the digital society for more than 15 years. This includes groundbreaking work on online abuse, the intersections of gender and surveillance in the digital society, and the linkages between bodies and data. She has also worked as an international consultant on internet issues, including for the Independent Commission on Multilateralism, the United Nations Development Programme Asia Pacific, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression. She has lectured at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and Ambedkar University, Delhi, India, has guest lectured in India and Brazil, and has conducted extensive fieldwork throughout South Asia. Anja obtained her Ph.D. in development studies from the University of East Anglia.