Ibrahim Sabra is an academic, researcher, and consultant with multifaceted experience in the fields of information technology law and human rights law and a dedicated advocate of clinical education and practice-informed research. Currently, he works as a digital policy consultant with the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) at Strathmore University in Kenya. In his role, he leads a US Gov-funded global initiative named CYRILLA. The initiative aims to map and analyse the development and impacts of legal frameworks on digital environments, with a focus on offering an open, multilingual database of digital rights law from around the world, particularly the Global South. Ibrahim also works as a digital rights researcher at Columbia University Global Freedom of Expression, where his work involves conducting research, analysis, writing, and editing of landmark court decisions, which address issues around freedom of expression, digital rights, and internet freedom, in order to identify the relevant national, regional, and global trends in these areas. Previously, Ibrahim taught law at the British University in Egypt Faculty of Law, where he delivered tutorials on human rights law, EU law, public international law, and legal research for undergraduates and seminars for postgraduate courses on cyberlaw and cybercrime. Ibrahim holds a Bachelor of Laws from Ain Shams University in Egypt and an LLM in information technology law from the University of East Anglia in the UK, as an awardee of the distinguished UK government’s Chevening Scholarship. His research primarily focuses on AI governance, internet freedom, tech policy, automated decision-making, and digital government.
