Dr. Swapnil Sharma is an assistant professor at IMI New Delhi in the Information Management Area. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. In his thesis research, he explored the phenomenon of Digital Citizen Empowerment in the e-Government domain. His research has been published in reputed journals like Information Technology for Development and Digital Policy, Regulation, and Governance. During his time at IIT Delhi, he led and successfully delivered 2 editions of the Digital India Awards Project working with the National Informatics Centre, New Delhi.

Dr. Sharma received the best paper award at the prestigious 14th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2021). He uses multi-method research design in conducting research combining both quantitative and qualitative techniques.

Previously, he was working as an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Business School, Sonipat and taught courses on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Blockchain technologies and their applications in business. He also had a short stint in the corporate sector working with Ernst & Young and Market Cube (Now Schlesinger Group, India) in the domain of market research. He has an Masters in Business Administration-IT degree from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad.

Research Focus: Digital Empowerment, E-governance, Digital Government, Internet Governance, Information & Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies.