Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and PhD candidate. Her science fiction political thriller,  Infomocracy, was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, Book Riot, and the Washington Post, and the sequel, Null States, came out in September 2017. She was nominated for the 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Named Senior Fellow for Technology and Risk at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs for 2015, she has more than a decade of experience in humanitarian aid and development. Her doctoral work on the sociology of organizations at the Institut d’Études Politques de Paris (Sciences Po) explores the dynamics of multi-level governance and disaster response using the cases of Hurricane Katrina and the Japan tsunami of 2011.