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Dr. Govand Khalid Azeez is a Lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney. He specializes in the history of technology, and the political economy of Artificial Intelligence. His research examines the macro-historical evolution of technological systems and evaluates how AI technologies transform society, work, politics, education and social relations.


Since 2018, Dr. Azeez has advised widely across industry, higher education, and emerging economies on understanding and integrating Artificial Intelligence to address their most pressing challenges in workforce development, education, economic advancement, and innovation.

In 2025, Dr. Azeez was invited to join as a member and expert advisor for the Technology & Digital Division of the Australian National AI Centre. He also began collaborating with AIEOU, University of Oxford's interdisciplinary research hub on AI and Education.

Dr. Azeez was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of History at Harvard University, Cambridge and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAS) at Columbia University. He was nominated for a Junior Fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University by his doctoral thesis examiner, Professor E.R.J. Owen, Director of Middle East Studies.





TEACHING:

  • POIR2060: Modern Politial Thought (with Ian Tregenza) 

  • POIR8040: Technology, Power and Uneven Development

  • POIR8420 Understanding World Politics: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches

  • POIR8410 Understanding World Politics: Theoretical Approaches

  • POIR8040 Research Methods in International Relations

  • POIR7000 Key Questions in Political Science and Public Policy

  • POIR1080 Introduction to Global Politics

  • IRPG849 International Political Economy

  • POL303 Global Political Economy

  • POL309 Political Thought in Action 

  • POL372 Islam and the West

  • IRPG840 The International System 

  • POIR333 Local and Global Practice

  • POIR8080 International Relations Research Project



SUPERVISION:

  • Ellen Kirkpatrick, PhD thesis:  'The Pandemic and Capitalist Systemic Crises'

  • Frances Hajama, MRes thesis: 'Samir Amin and William I. Robinson on Class and Imperialism'

  • Trent Curran, MRes thesis: 'Andres Malm, Marxism and Ecology'

  • Flavia Julius, PhD thesis: 'Neoliberalism and Race Relations in Brazil'  (Associate)

External positions

Member/Expert Advisor, Australian National AI Center

25 Jan 2025 → …

Member, AIEOU at Oxford University

10 Jan 2025 → …

Member, Centre for Global Indigenous Futures

1 Jul 2023 → …

Non-Executive Director, Getmee AI

15 Jan 2020 → …

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