Dr. Sharath Srinivasan

Dr. Sharath Srinivasan is a Lecturer in Governance and Human Rights in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), the Director of Cambridge’s Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) and a Fellow of King’s College. 

Sharath’s current research follows two core themes: the politics and ethics of external intervention in civil conflicts with a focus on Sudan and South Sudan and the role of new information and communication technologies in political change with a focus on sub-Saharan more broadly. His work involves active collaboration with researchers in Africa - including Professor Christof Heyns (University of Pretoria; UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings, Summary Executions) and Professor Winnie Mitullah (Director, Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi) – and was the starting point for Africa’s Voices. Africa’s Voices is a non-profit research organization that leverages new opportunities created by new digital communications to amplify and elevate the voices of Africans – in all of their diversity – to the levels of development and governance actors.

The knowledge generated by Sharath's research, namely through the analysis of digital, citizen-data generated data by Africa’s Voices, can impact the lives of the world’s poorest 3 billion people.