Dr. Cecilia Rikap is Associate Professor in Economics and the Head of Research at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose of the University College London (UCL). She is a tenured researcher of the CONICET, Argentina’s national research council, and Associate Researcher at COSTECH lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She authored the award-winning book Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered (Routledge, 2021) and co-authored The Digital Innovation Race (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Her forthcoming book, The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud will come out with Verso in 2026.