Associate Professor Chris Ogden is the Programme Director of Global Studies at UoA and specialises in the dynamics of power and identity in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

He discusses how the pandemic revealed authoritarian tendencies in different countries. Using the social credit system in China as an example, he also talks about how technology could be used by regime, and how some degrees of a similar system exists in our societies.

Learn more about Global Studies: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/study/study-options/global-studies.html