Bio
Robert Gorwa is a CIGI fellow whose work explores the complexities of — and the politics underpinning — regulation in the contemporary digital economy. He is currently employed as a researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and is also affiliated with the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Robert received his doctorate from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He has held research positions and visiting fellowships internationally, including most recently at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. In the past few years, he has presented his work on platform regulation for high-level policy makers in various jurisdictions, including at the US-EU Trade and Technology Council and the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy, and has also consulted for Human Rights Watch and other digital rights organizations. His latest work, on artificial intelligence policy and machine learning intermediaries, is already being cited frequently by international regulators and major industry stakeholders and is currently being developed into a second book project in collaboration with Michael Veale from University College London.