Dr. Tanya Filer is an Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett School for Public Policy, having established and led the Digital State Project at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, focussed on digital government and the technological capacities of government organisations and policymakers. Amid rapid technological change and deepening inequality, she seeks to understand how governments can better use, scale, and govern the development and use of digital and emerging technologies. She developed the Digital State series and ran Tech States, and publishes across research, policy, and media outlets. Tanya was previously a research fellow on political disinformation at Cambridge, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
Tanya is Founder and CEO of StateUp, the platform of research, strategy, and executive programmes helping governments and firms globally to lead through the technology, energy, and geopolitical transitions.
She is also Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Forum on Technology and Global Affairs (CUP), which welcomes research and policy articles from and for academia, government, and the technology sector. Tanya lectures and supervises across postgraduate programmes and has taught previously at Yale, Oxford and UCL.
Tanya has been a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, and held fellowships at the Library of Congress and Yale University. She was a Leverhulme scholar at the Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires and UK-Israel British Council fellow in Cyber Research. She served on the Council on the Future of Information and Entertainment at the World Economic Forum and sits on the Advisory Board of the Information Law and Policy Centre, School of Advanced Studies, University of London and Steering Committee of Cambridge’s Trust and Technology Initiative. She is a graduate of UCL, Oxford, and Cambridge.
