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Contact
E-Mail: vellah.kigwiru(at)hfp.tum.de
Phone: +49 (0)89 907793 108
Office: H.304
Office hours by appointment.
Vellah is a Doctoral Candidate at the Chair of International Relations and a Friedrich Schiedel Fellow of the TUM Think Tank at the Technical University of Munich. She is also an Associate Research Fellow at the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre, University of Sussex. She holds a Bachelor of Law (LLB) and Master of Law (LLM) from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.
Vellah’s research interests focus on the Global North and Global South regulatory frameworks from a comparative perspective to inform policy adoption and change. Her projects focus on competition policy, regional integration, artificial intelligence, data protection, and platform governance in Africa and the European Union.