Abid is a DPhil student at Oxford Internet Institute, Pembroke College, supervised by Prof. Vili Lehdonvirta. His research aims to understand Digital Industrial Policy and Digital Sovereignty in the context of geoeconomic rivalries. His DPhil research project is titled, “The Geoeconomics of Digital Industrial Policy in the US, EU, and UK: Examining Liberalism in the Age of Technological Rivalries”.
Abid is a Bakrie Scholar Fellow with a DPhil scholarship from the Bakrie Centre Foundation (BCF), Indonesia. Abid previously worked for Oxford Information Labs (OXIL). Abid is also a former President of Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia Oxford (PPI Oxford).
Prior to joining OII, Abid studied for a dual master’s degree in International Affairs at Sciences Po, Paris and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He earned his Bachelor of Social Science at the Department of International Relations, Universitas Indonesia. Abid is also a junior researcher at Abdurrahman Wahid Centre for Peace and Humanities, Universitas Indonesia (AWCPH UI).
He is also a co-founder of Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia at Universitas Indonesia (FPCI UI) and LSESU Association for International Peace and Security (LSESU AIPS).
Digital Industrial Policy; Digital Sovereignty; Geoeconomics; International Political Economy; International Relations and Technology; Indonesian Politics and Foreign Policy.
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