Sam Kininmonth is a consumer advocate and communications researcher. Sam is a policy adviser at the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) where he represents consumer interests on phones, internet and emerging communications services. He contributes to ACCAN’s advocacy for consumers of digital platform services.

Sam’s academic research examines the use of automated decision making in communications infrastructure. His doctoral research draws on interviews with advertising executives and documents from the ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry (2019) to understand the adoption of programmatic advertising in Australia. Sam has published work in leading academic journals and presented his research internationally and domestically.