Dr Aasim Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies whose work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, ethics, and society. His research and teaching explore one of the defining questions of our time: how emerging AI technologies are reshaping social life, governance, and economic futures- particularly in emerging economies and the global South.

Trained in communication studies and public policy, Dr. Khan earned his PhD from King’s College London and an MA from SOAS, University of London. Prior to moving to London, he completed his MA from Jamia Millia Islamia and a Bachelor in Science from the top-ranked St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

His research has been published in leading international journals including India Review, Third World Quarterly, Economic and Political Weekly, Global Policy, and Communication, Culture & Critique. His most recent work appears in Oxford Intersections (Oxford University Press). He also serves as Editor of Global Policy: Next Generation, a Wiley publication supported by the Global Policy Institute at Durham University’s School of Government and International Affairs, where he mentors emerging scholars engaging with global policy challenges.

Dr. Khan’s work has been supported by prominent international institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Singapore), the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. He has held prestigious fellowships and appointments, including Fulbright scholar at the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs at Brown University (2022–23), and Global Governance Futures Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. He has also been affiliated with the Centre de Sciences Humaines in New Delhi and a visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Management (Indore).

At present, Dr. Khan teaches courses on the AI, Ethics and Society, encouraging students to think critically about responsibility, fairness, and the societal consequences of intelligent systems. Across his work, Dr. Khan seeks not only to analyze technological change, but to ask a deeper question: How can AI serve human development in equitable and sustainable ways?

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

MA Global Media and Communication, SOAS, University of London (2011)

BSc Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry, Delho University (2003)

AI, ethics and society

Digital economy and governance

Internet and global 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
• 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, 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