Ewan is a PhD student and researcher within the Digital Governance, Technology and Policy chair at the Hasso Plattner Institute. His PhD research interest lies in understanding the role of international cooperation and regional organisations in influencing digital policy decisions in Eurasia, for which mixed quantitative and qualitative methods will be applied to large data sets to describe patterns of policy convergence. Alongside this project, Ewan also supports the research of the ‘The Path to Power’ Project led by Prof. Gillian Bolsover within the HPI’s Digital Governance, Technology and Policy chair. His interest in questions of political power, international influence, and digital technology developed through previous work as a researcher in the DGO funded SCRIPTS cluster project: "War in Ukraine, Russia’s potential decoupling from the global internet and the changing perspective of emerging powers on internet and data governance" at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Outside of academia, Ewan has a passion for travelling and language learning, and can speak German, Russian and Czech alongside his native English.
