Dr. Aasim Khan is Asst. Professor, Department of Global Studies and  a political scientist who studies how technological change impacts institutions and society, with a focus on Big Data and AI and an area focus on South Asia and the global South at large. He received his Ph.D. in Politics and Public Policy from the King’s India Institute, King’s College London (2018), supported by the prestigious Global Institute Studentships and the 1st Mazumdar Scholarship. Dr Khan also holds M.A. degrees in global media from the University of London and mass communication from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and completed his B.Sc. from India’s top ranked St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.

Dr Khan now serves as an Editor of Global Policy: Next Generation, a Wiley publication supported by the Global Policy Institute.

The Institute is hosted in the School of Government and International Affairs and is a joint venture with the Durham Law School. Dr Khan’s own research has appeared in leading international venues, including India Review, Third World Quarterly, Economic and Political Weekly, Global Policy and Communication, Culture & Critique; his most recent publication is in Oxford Intersections (Oxford University Press). He has contributed chapters in several edited volumes including books published by Taylor & Francis, World Scientific, and Orient Blackswan. He is also active in technology policy space and has co-authored policy reports published by the Brookings Institution and the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin.

Dr Khan has been a Visiting Scholar at the the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs, Brown University, with his stay supported by the Fulbright‑Nehru Postdoctoral Research Award (2022–23). He has raised competitive funding from the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund and the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR). He collaborates with partners at Center for International Affairs at Sciences Po (CERI, Paris) and Ludwig‑Maximilian University (Munich), and has been an Associate Researcher with the Centre de Sciences Humaines (New Delhi).

Dr Khan currently teaches courses on AI, Ethics and Society and leads projects on the institutional and policy relevance of AI in the global South contexts, with a focus on governance, power, and allied transformations in culture, economy and society.

PhD, Politics and Public Policy (Contemporary India), King’s College London, 2018

MA, Global Media and Postnational Communication, University of London, 2011

BSc, Physics,Chemistry and Mathematics, University of Delhi, 2003

Digital Politics and Ethics

AI and Governance

Big Data, Society & Public Policy

• Khan, A., Maharaj, S., Kumar, A., & Kumar, P. “Networks of influence: Instagram and digital entrepreneurship in two regional contexts in India.” In Oxford intersections: Social media in society and culture. Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945253.003.0045
• Fatimah, M., Khan, A., & Natarajan, S. (2024). “Data for public journalism and social research: Technological change and the civic space in India”. In Social scientists in the civic space: Ethical perspectives (pp. 192–204). Taylor & Francis. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003560838-18
• Khan, Aasim. “Towards a Union of Data States: Political Economy of Digitalisation of regional governance in India”, in Reality and Challenges of Great Transition in India: Issues and Debates, edited by Kim, C. and Misu Kim. Singapore: World Scientific Publishers (March, 2023) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/13307
• Khan, Aasim. Midhat Fatima, Kabir Dureja and Vedant Jumle. “Decoding the Star System: Twitter and its impact on journalism in the global South”. Global Policy (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13252
• Dwivedi, Ruchi. Yaqoob, M. Aasim Khan, Praveen Priyadarshi, R. Mutharaju, S. Alam and Sudhir Attri.” In search of a “Social-AQI”: Democratic deficits in the air pollution data regime in Delhi.” In Khaliq Parkar and Stéphanie Tawa Lama (eds). Digitalization of urban governance in India: Ideas, Techniques, Practices. SAMAJ: South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (October, 2023) DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.8768
• Khan, Aasim. “Beyond Consent: Surveillance capitalism and politics in the data state” India Review 20, no. 2 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2021.1895563
• Webb, Martin. Aasim Khan, Venkata Ratnadeep Suri, Riad Azam & Farhat Salim. “Between hunger and contagion: Digital mediation and advocacy during the COVID19 emergency in Delhi” in Third World Quarterly (2023), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2257612
• Khan, Aasim. “Promises and Perils of Digital Transformation”, Review of The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and The Destinies of Nations by Anirudh Suri. The Book Review 46, no. 5 (2022). https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/promises-and-perils-of-digital-transformation/
• Khan, Aasim and Faiz Ullah. “Whose ‘Free Wi-Fi’ Is it Anyway: Digital Populism and urban politics of Internet Access in India” in Monteiro, Anjali., Rai, Amit. (eds.) Diginaka: Subaltern Politics and Digital Media in Post-capitalist India, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. (2020)
• Udupa, Sahana. Shriram Venkataraman and Aasim Khan. “Introduction: Digital Politics in Millennial India: Global Media in Context.” Television and New Media 21, no. 4. (2019) https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476419870516
• Khan, Aasim. “Political Economy of the Future.” Review of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff. Social Change 49, no. 4. (December, 2019) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/004908571987292