Tanya Filer, PhD

Prior to founding StateUp, Tanya founded the Digital State programme at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, a research unit of the University of Cambridge. She is widely published in academic and media publications, including Wired, NS Tech and Brookings Tech Stream, where she is Contributing Author. A particular focus of her recent work has been on foreign policy dimensions of digital governance issues.

Tanya teaches across several postgraduate programmes at Cambridge, including the MPhil in Public Policy, and has taught at Yale and Oxford. She is also Academic Director of the Internet and Digital Economy Parliamentary Scheme, a year-long programme for MPs in the UK.

Tanya sits on the Academic Advisory Board of VentureESG and Advisory Board of the Information Law and Policy Centre, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. She has served on the Steering Committee of the Cambridge Trust and Technology Initiative and the Council on the Future of Information and Entertainment at the World Economic Forum.

Tanya is passionate about “translating” between different parts of innovation ecosystems—government and the technology sector, academic research and policy and industry decision-making—which is a key motivation behind StateUp’s products and services.

Tanya has held fellowships at Harvard, Yale, and the Library of Congress, and was a UK-Israel British Council fellow in Cyber research in 2018. She is a graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, and UCL.