Prof Igor Calzada PhD (Cum Laude)

Fulbright SIR, MBA, BSc (Hons) & FeRSA

BIO (01/2025):

Prof. Dr. Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSA, is a Full Professor in Social Sciences and Humanities and Established Researcher (R3) (www.igorcalzada.com/publications). He works as Principal Investigator in Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science) at the University of the Basque Country, Public Policy & Economic History Department (Spain) as well as at Cardiff University/WISERD (UK), being since 2022 Fulbright Scholar in California (USA) collaborating as Fellow with Decentralization Research Centre (Canada). He is currently Invited Professor at Warsaw School of Economics SGH (Poland), Indian Institute of Technology ITT Delhi (India), and Budapest University of Technology and Economics BME (Hungary). For a decade (2012–2022), he has been Senior Scientist at the University of Oxford, European Commission DG Joint Research Centre, UN-Habitat, and has held academic positions in 14 universities worldwide (particularly, UK, USA, Belgium, Italy, and Spain). From 2002–2011, he worked at Mondragon Cooperatives and held a Director of Innovation & Technology position in the Basque Government (Spain). His research currently revolves around how decentralization as a paradigm shift can change the course of data-opolies and AI through emerging Web3 Decentralized Technologies including case studies in different fields around Blockchain, DAOs, and Data Co-operatives. Google Scholar: 4808 citations, h-index 32, and i10-index 66. He has nominated as Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential Academic in Government.

Academic Performance Summary: 2002-2024

  • Track-Record of Publications (349): 67 peer-reviewed academic journal articles (31 in Q1); 13 books; 27 book chapters; 29 policy reports; 34 media dissemination articles; and 179 invited international keynotes, lectures, and talks. Five monographs: The Smart City Transformations (Bloomsbury, 2017), Smart City Citizenship (Elsevier, 2021), Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes (Emerald, 2022), Datafied Democracies (Springer, 2024), and Benchmarking City-Regions (Routledge, 2024).
  • Total Competitive International Research Funding: [€ 24M, Period 2002-2024; 113 Projects (98 PI/15 CoI); 45% International/21% UK/19% EU/3% Spain/12% Basque Country; 15 Fellowships/54 Competitive/42 Contracts].
  • International/Transdisciplinary Lectureship: 67 Modules/572.5 ECTs in 14 Universities Worldwide; PG 45 Modules/443.5 ECTs + G 22 Modules/129 ECTs.

Current Research Projects: 

He is currently PI of the following projects:

  1. ENFIELD EU HORIZON EUROPE project on Trustworthy AI: Democracy in the Age of Algorithm: Enhancing Transparency and Trust in AIGenerated Content through Innovative Detection Techniques. SGA: oc1-2024-TES-01. GA: No 101120657.
  2. Etorkizuna Eraikiz-AI4SI: The Social Impact of the AI in the Historic Province of Gipuzkoa
  3. AI4SI with the NGO Ayuda en Acción
  4. HanHemen e-Diaspora Platform: Presidency, Basque Government, External Affairs General Secretary.

Current Lectureship:

He is PhD Supervisor and Invited Reader at:

Publications/Metrics:

Institutional Profiles /Repositories:

Current Editor/Editorial Advisory Board Member:

  1. Data & Policy (Cambridge University Press). Impact Factor 1.8
  2. Smart Cities (MDPI). Impact Factor 6.4/Citescore 8.5.
  3. Frontiers in Blockchain (Frontiers). Impact Factor 3.1.
  4. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (Emerald) Impact Factor 2.6/CiteScore 5.0
  5. SN Applied Sciences (Nature Springer) Impact Factor 2.6
  6. Urban Planning (CogitatioPress) Impact Factor 1.8/CiteScore 3.2
  7. Citizenship Studies (Taylor & Francis). Impact Factor 1.8/CiteScore 2.7. Guest Editor
  8. Cogent Social Sciences (Taylor & Francis): Sociology Section. Senior Editor. Impact Factor 1.5/CiteScore 2.4
  9. Frontiers in Political Science, Politics of Technology (Frontiers). CiteScore 1.6.
  10. Territories: A Transcultural Journal of Regional Studies (eScholarship)
  11. Critical Insights in Environmental Studies (Taylor & Francis)
  12. Discover Cities (Springer Nature)

ACADEMIC BITACORA (20 years): 2005-2025