Samantha Hoffman

Samantha Hoffman is an Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Centre, a Fellow at China Forum, and an independent consultant. In 2018, she was a Visiting Fellow at MERICS in Berlin. She also worked as a consultant for the IISS (2012-2018) and IHS Markit (2012-2017). Her research explores the domestic and global implications of the Chinese Communist Party’s approach to state security. The research offers new ways of thinking about how to understand and respond to China’s technology-enhanced political and social control efforts. Hoffman holds a Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations from the University of Nottingham (2017), an M.Sc. in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford (2011), and B.A. degrees in International Affairs and East Asian Languages & Cultures from Florida State University (2010).