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Malka Older (she/her)

Associated Researcher, Center for Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po

Author

Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and sociologist. Her science-fiction political thriller Infomocracy was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, Book Riot, and the Washington Post, and shortlisted for the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award. The Centenal Cycle , which also includes Null States (2017) and State Tectonics (2018), is a finalist for the Hugo Best Series Award of 2018. She is also the creator of the serial Ninth Step Station, currently running on Serial Box, and her short story collection And Other Disasters will come out in December 2019. Named Senior Fellow for Technology and Risk at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs for 2015, she has more than a decade of field experience in humanitarian aid and development. Her doctoral work on the sociology of organizations at Sciences Po Paris explores the dynamics of post-disaster improvisation in governments.

Sessions

Book Club: Infomocracy by Malka Older

September 9, 2021  4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Thanks to the support of our partners at Google Cloud, we ran the second Executive Book Club on September 9, 2021 with Malka Older, author of Infomocracy. See more.
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