Aberdeen & Bonn Global Conversation

The Conversation on Democracy, Social Media, and AI in the Arab World is with Nele Lenze and Robert Traynham.

Nele Lenze is the Publishing Director of Berlin Story Verlag. Formerly a researcher at RMIT University, the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait, the National University of Singapore, the LSE, and the University of Oslo, Dr Lenze is the author of ‘Politics and Digital Literature in the Middle East’.


Robert Traynham is the Head of External Affairs of Facebook as well as Adjunct Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is also the Vice President of the Bipartisan Policy Center, the D.C. Bureau Chief of the Comcast Network as well as a Senior Staffer on Capitol Hill. Dr Traynham will speak in a personal capacity.