Nazam Laila

Open Society University Network Academy Fellow, Digital Society Initiative

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Biography

Nazam is the Open Society University Network Academy Fellow with the Digital Society Initiative. Her current research focuses on responsible and effective AI governance policies for the UK and the Commonwealth in a postcolonial context. She specializes in human-centric AI governance policies, technopolitics, digital platform economy, cyberdiplomacy, ICT development, postcolonialism and feminist political economy. She is also a research group member at the Centre for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP). 

Nazam holds an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalization from the London School of Economics and an MA in Interdisciplinary English Literature from BRAC University. She is currently pursuing her PhD as a Commonwealth Doctoral Scholar at the SOAS University of London in the Department of Politics and International Studies.

Past experience

2022-presentGraduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London
2020-presentLecturer, School of General Education, BRAC University
2018-20Senior Fellow and Instructor, Asian University for Women
2018Junior Lecturer for the Scholars Programme (Part-time), BRAC University
2015-17Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University.