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Melanie Garson

Melanie Garson

Associate Professor in International Security, UCL

Dr Melanie Garson is cyber and tech geopolitics policy specialist and public speaker who connects the dots between new and emerging tech and its potential impact on security, foreign policy, diplomacy and the world order. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at UCL where she teaches her flagship course “From Cyberwarfare to Robots: The Future of Conflict in the Digital Age,” and Director of Research at ISTARI.  She worked for four years as the Cyber Policy and Tech Geopolitics Lead at the Tony Blair Institute, and is also a lawyer and mediator. Melanie regularly provides commentary on geopolitics and tech in podcasts, webinars and at major media outlets including Bloomberg, BBC, Sky, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, France 24, and DeutscheWelle.

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