Taylor Owen is the Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications, the founding director of , and an Associate Professor in the Max Bell School of Public Policy at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University. He is the host of the podcast, a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation, a Fellow at the Public Policy Forum, and sits on the Governing Council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). He was previously an Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia and the Research Director of Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia School of Journalism.  His Doctorate is from the University of OxfordÌý²¹²Ô»å he has been a Trudeau and Banting scholar, an Action Canada Fellow and received the 2016 Public Policy Forum Emerging Leader award. He is the author of Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2015) and the co-editor of The World Won’t Wait: Why Canada Needs to Rethink its Foreign Policies (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State (Columbia University Press, 2016). His forthcoming book with Emily Bell will be published by Yale University Press in 2021. His work focuses on the intersection of media, technology and public policy and can be found at Ìý²¹²Ô»å .
Professor Owen sits down with people shaping the rapidly approaching future of growing technology and AI for podcast. He engages with entrepreneurs building world-ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ technologies, lawmakers trying to ensure safety, and scholars working to understand how they’re transforming our lives.
Course offered:
Core Policy Course: Information and Media Literacy
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DPhil, Oxford University (International Relations, Geography)
MA, The University of British Columbia (Geography)
BA, Bishop's University
