Arun Sukumar

PhD Candidate, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University

Visiting Fellow 30 Oct 2018 – 30 Nov 2018

Presented a lecture on 21 November 2018: Norms-creation in Cyberspace: What International Law Can Learn From Behavioural Economics

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Arun Sukumar (@arunmsukumar) will be joining the The Hague Program for Cyber Norms in November for a month as a Visiting Fellow. Arun is a doctoral candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He is currently on leave from the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, where he headed its Cyber Initiative (2015 – 2017).

Arun was a member of the multi-stakeholder group set up by India’s National Security Advisor in 2017 to recommend policy and strategy for the promotion and negotiation of cyber norms. By invitation from the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Arun has served as an independent legal expert to the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts (UNGGE), the intergovernmental forum tasked with conceiving cybernorms, and to the UN First Committee on disarmament and international security.

As its elected Vice Chair, Arun completed a two-year term in 2017 as one of the stewards of the Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum. During the 2016 Tallinn Manual 2.0 consultations on the international law applicable to cyber operations, he joined the Indian delegation as its non-governmental representative. Arun is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Digital Economy and Society.

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Want to know more about Arun's fellowship experience? You can find a short interview here.

Arun Sukumar

PhD Candidate, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University

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Current and future visiting fellows

Jeanne-Louise Roellinger

PhD student in International Relations at the Center for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris

Samar Abbas Nawaz

Doctoral researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

André Barrinha

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations at University of Bath

Previous visiting fellows

Nadiya Kostyuk

Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy and the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (courtesy) at Georgia Institute of Technology

Bulelani Jili

Meta Research Ph.D. Fellow at Harvard University

Oskar Galeev

Ph.D. Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University

Isabella Wilkinson

Research Associate in the International Security Programme at Chatham House

Jack Kenny

Research Fellow in International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tobias Scholz

Ph.D. Candidate in International Relations at King's College London and National University of Singapore

Henrique Ribeiro da Rocha

Ph.D. Student in Military Sciences at The Brazilian Army Command and General Staff College

Lena Herbst

Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at the Institute of International Relations at Technical University of Braunschweig

Amy Ertan

Cyber and Hybrid Policy Officer at NATO Headquarters

Mark Quinlan

PhD candidate in Cyber Security at Oxford University

Tommaso Comunale

Security Analyst at the Center for the Study of Democracy

Louise Marie Hurel

PhD researcher in Data, Networks and Society at the London School of Economics

Yuliya Miadzvetskaya

Researcher Chair of Law and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Tübingen

Eva Claessen

PhD researcher in Russia studies at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies (GGS)

Julia Voo

Cyber Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Dr François Delerue

Research Fellow in Cyber Defense and International Law at IRSEM (Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'École Militaire)