Sebastián Lehuedé

Sebastián Lehuedé is an Affiliate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Sebastián  is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge. Applying decolonial theory, his research examines the governance of digital technologies from a global social justice perspective. His current project focuses on emerging forms of resistance against the environmental harms caused by Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in Latin America.

Sebastián was recently granted the 2022 Association of Internet Researchers Dissertation Award for his thesis on the governance of astronomy data in Chile.

Sebastián is a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University and a member of the Tierra Común network of researchers and activists.

Sebastián has worked with digital rights, environmental and Indigenous groups in Chile and Mexico, and has been invited to talks by organisations such as AlgorithmWatch and Oxfam.