Stephanie Diepeveen, PhD

Digital Technologies & Governance Expert

Dr Stephanie Diepeveen is Digital Technologies & Governance Expert with StateUp and Senior Lecturer in Global Digital Politics at King's College London. She serves as Lead Co-Chair of the Think20 Taskforce on Inclusive Digital Transformations under South Africa's G20 Presidency. Her research sits at the intersection of power, digital infrastructure and citizen–state relations, and she regularly translates research into policy across multilateral forums, including the G20, G7 and the UN's Global Digital Compact. She is the author of Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and previously led the Digital Societies Initiative at ODI.

Expertise
  • Digital and Offline Ethnography: research on the ground and across social media platforms.
  • Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning: oversight of process and impact evaluations for research and innovation initiatives.
  • Social Network Analysis: data scraping, cleaning and visualisation to understand digital interactions.
  • Key Experiences
  • Lead Co-Chair, T20 Taskforce on Inclusive Digital Transformations, South Africa's G20 Presidency.
  • Senior Research Fellow, ODI: led the Digital Societies Initiative on digitalisation across politics, gender and humanitarian sectors.
  • Senior Research Associate, Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, University of Cambridge.
  • Education

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