Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds

Kinfe joined the School of Law in 2024. Before joining Leeds, he was an Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Addis Ababa, and a Teaching Fellow at The University of Melbourne Law School. His research interests, teaching and publications are in the fields of law and technology, particularly privacy and data protection law, cybersecurity law, and AI governance. He has published extensively in these fields, including two monographs ‘Privacy and the Role of International Law in the Digital Age’ (Oxford University Press, 2023) and The Content Governance Dilemma: Digital Constitutionalism, Social Media and the Search for a Global Standard (Palgrave, 2023). He is currently completing his third monograph ‘The Global Governance of AI’ (Routledge). He is a founding member of the Platform Governance Research Network and the Global Constiutionalism Network. He previously acted as an expert advisor and consultant on various law and technology themes for the African Union Commission, the Internet Society, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Internews Network, Data4Change and the governments of Lesotho and Ethiopia. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Melbourne, MPhil in Ethics of AI, Data & Algorithms from the University of Cambridge, LLM in International Law from Brunel University of London, LLM in Information Technology Law from the University of Oslo and LLB from the University of Addis Ababa.