Wendy H. Wong

Wendy H. Wong is Professor and Principal’s Research Chair in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan) and co-lead of the Digital Transparency Excellence Cluster. A leading scholar in International Relations, her research focuses on global governance, technology, human rights, and NGOs. She is the author of We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT, 2023), which received the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy and was a finalist for the 2024 Lionel-Gelber Prize, as well as two other award-winning books from Cornell University Press and dozens of academic and public writings. Currently, she has two books under contract, Mirrored States: How to Govern Big Tech (Penguin Canada) and Governance Constellations (Cornell). Dr. Wong is a frequent media commentator on technology and society. She previously directed the Trudeau Center for Peace, Conflict, and Justice and served as Research Lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute at the University of Toronto, where she was Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor from 2008-2024.