Madison Lee (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) at the Balsillie School of International Affairs through Wilfrid Laurier University, specializing in International Political Economy. Her doctoral research explores the intersection of Big Tech companies, capitalism, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, robotics, and the Internet of Things. Madison’s work particularly engages with ongoing debates about the nature of capitalism today, including perspectives on an evolving capitalism, such as Surveillance Capitalism or Platform Capitalism, as well as arguments that we are now entering an era of Techno- or Neo-feudalism.

She is also a former Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation’s Digital Policy Hub. During her year-long fellowship, she produced three working papers that engaged with digital governance, competition, transformative technologies, and artificial intelligence.

Madison has presented her research at a wide range of conferences, including Carleton’s 22nd Annual Graduate Conference, where she presented her paper “Rise of the New Capitalists: Applying Neo-Marxist Thought to the Dominion of Big Tech”; Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, at the “The Rise of the Digital Technocracy” conference; and the upcoming MLG’s Institute on Culture and Society, where she will speak at a roundtable discussion at the University of California, Berkeley in June 2026.

In her spare time, Madison enjoys crocheting, baking, reading, hiking, and camping. She is also an avid animal lover and has a rescue greyhound named Lini.

Madison recognizes her privilege and position as a settler on the traditional territories of the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples.