Bio
Thompson Gyedu Kwarkye is a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin in Ireland. He previously worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. His research interest is in traditional and modernity discourses, human security, AI politics, governance, regulation and ethics, drawing on perspectives from the Global South. Thompson studied for a bachelor’s in political science from the University of Ghana and a master’s in human security from Aarhus University, Denmark. Thompson is a current recipient of the MSCA COFUND Grant (ROSETTA), where he will examine the political and socio-cultural dynamics of AI in Africa.