Pedro Maia is a PhD student at the Department of International Relations/Political Science at the Graduate Institute and a Research Assistant at the SNSF BSJR project "Infrastructuring Democracy: the regulatory politics of digital code, content and circulation".

He holds BA and MA degrees in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Before joining the Graduate Institute, he worked as a security researcher in Think Tanks and policy-oriented organizations. His current research interests are: critical security studies, technology, GIS interfaces, the SDG's and data-driven policies.