Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ‘Three Generations of Digital Rights’ project funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Prior to that, he was a Sessional Academic and Tutor at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia. Dr Ayalew is an inaugural Majority World Initiative (MWI) Scholar at Yale Law School. He holds a PhD in Law at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia and dual Master of Laws (LLM) degrees, one in Public International Law from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and the other in International Human Rights Law from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. As an academic and human rights activist, Dr Ayalew has been actively working for the promotion and protection of digital rights in Ethiopia and beyond. His work has been published in leading academic journals including The Human Rights Law Review, Information and Communications Technology Law, African Human Rights Law Journal, and The International Data Privacy Law.
