R2R24 Keynote – Dr. Wendy Wong

Award-winning author and professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in the department of political science. Wendy’s interests include emerging technologies, human rights, data/AI, global governance, NGOs, social movements, non-state actors, and humanitarian assistance.

This B.C.-based scholar is among the finalists for the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize. She is nominated for her book, We, The Data: Human rights in the digital age which highlights how pervasive data collection and tracking are in everyday life. Laying the foundation for future policy, We, The Data calls for human rights to be extended to encourage human potential when data threatens to complicate how we progress.

She has also co-authored two other award-winning books, Internal Affairs and The Authority Trap (with Sarah S. Stroup), both published by Cornell University Press and penned dozens of peer-reviewed articles and chapters. Dr. Wong has appeared in outlets such as the CBC, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and The Conversation.

Dr. Wendy H. Wong is a Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. She Is currently Faculty Affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) at the University of Toronto in Global Governance and Civil Society. From 2012-2017, Dr. Wong was Director of the Trudeau Center for Peace, Conflict, and Justice at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.