Emile Dirks
Senior Research Associate, University of Toronto
Dr. Emile Dirks is a Senior Research Associate at The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, where he explores Chinese politics and digital authoritarianism. His work on biometric surveillance in China has been covered by The New York Times and The Economist, among other publications, and he is the co-author of a forthcoming book on how China governs its diaspora.
Dr. Dirks has has testified twice before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and was previously a Futures Fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies and a Research Associate at the London School of Economics.
