Dr. Aasim Khan is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, IIIT-Delhi. Aasim has specialization in global and South Asia studies with a focus on politics and public policy. His current research combines his interest in political and social theory of the 'global South' with a focus on information technologies, social networks and new media and their entanglements with global and regional governance institutions. Aasim completed his BSc in Physics, Chemistry and Maths (St Stephen’s College, Delhi University) and then pursued an MA in mass communication (Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi). He completed a second MA in global media and communication studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and worked as a journalist for several years in between. He then pursued his doctoral research at the India Institute, King's College London, UK. He was awarded a PhD in Politics and Public Policy in 2018. Most recently, from 2022-2023, Aasim was a Visiting Scholar in Political Science at the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs, Brown University, USA.

Aasim has also raised several grants to fund his research, including the IMPRESS grant by the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), and a Global Challenges Research Fund GCRF grant (in collaboration with the Goldsmiths, UK). He received the Global Institutes Studentships and the Mazumdar Fellowship (2012-2015) at the King's India Institute. In 2014, he was awarded the Global Governance Futures fellowship by the GPPi Institute, Berlin, Germany. Since 2021, he has been an Associate Researcher at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), Delhi.

Aasim has published extensively on themes related to his research interests, including articles in peer-reviewed journals Global Policy, India Review, SAMAJ, Third World Quarterly, Culture Unbound and Television and New Media among others. He has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes, most recently to an edited collection on the global post-truth crisis (Routledge, December, 2023). Aasim has himself co-edited two special issues on themes of technological change and institutions in the South Asia; the first a special issue for TVNM (Sage, 2019) on "Millennial India" and a more recent special section in Global Policy (November, 2023) on the role of influencers, titled "The Sound, The fury and The Silences."

Over the past few years, Aasim has been invited for talks and lectures at various public and academic venues. He has delivered seminar talks at the Centre for Law and Governance (JNU), TISS Mumbai, Department of Political Science (JMI), TCPD at Ashoka University, Goldsmiths University (UK), Department of Social Sciences and Humanities IIT Jodhpur and at IIM Indore where he was a visiting faculty in 2019. As a Fulbright scholar in the United States, Aasim was a speaker at the Watson Institute Seminar Series (Brown University) and at the Centre for South Asia (Stanford University). Aasim worked for many years in broadcast news journalism (CNN-IBN) and international development (Oxfam GB) and is a regular contributor to The Book Review as well as research and development programs such as the Social Sciences Winter School held at French Institute in Pondicherry where he was a keynote speaker in November, 2023. Most recently, he was invited for a presentation on his research by the Centre for South Asia, Sciences Po, Paris (June 2024)