Thompson Gyedu Kwarkye is a Marie Curie (ROSETTA) Fellow at the University of Galway. His project investigates the political, ethical, and sociocultural dimensions of African AI governance, focusing on participatory policymaking and transnational AI standards. Thompson holds a PhD in Anthropology from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, an MSc in Human Security from Aarhus University, Denmark, and a BA in Political Science from the University of Ghana. He has been a postdoc at the University College Dublin and the University of Oxford, designing AI ethics and auditing courses and researching the impacts of EU regulations on Africa, respectively.
