Mohammad Amir Anwar is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Development at the University of Edingburgh where he currently leads the Planetary AI project. He is co-author of ‘The Digital Continent’ (OUP, 2022) and has co-edited a Special Issue on ‘Datafied Development’ with Big Data and Society (2026). He is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg and a Visiting Fellow of the Trinity College Dublin.