Irene Poetranto

Irene Poetranto is a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab. Her research focuses on internet governance and the politics of internet regulation, digital security and identity politics (including gender and intersectionality), as well as countering terrorism, violent extremism, and hate speech online. Her geographic area of focus is Southeast Asia. Irene has a Ph.D in Political Science from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where she completed a dissertation that examined how Southeast Asian governments shape, regulate, and impose controls on the online flow of information. She obtained her Master’s degree in Political Science and Asia Pacific Studies from the University of Toronto and Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of British Columbia (UBC).