Urvashi Aneja is the founding director of Digital Futures Lab. She examines the social impacts of data-driven decision-making systems in India and the majority world. Her current work examines the ethics and governance of AI in the global south; big tech and platform governance; and labour rights and wellbeing. Through her research, she seeks to make visible the current and future impacts of socio-technical change and draw attention to the underlying value conflicts and power asymmetries that prevent a more equitable distribution of technology gains.

Her research has been cited in leading national and global media publications, including the BBC, Reuters, and the Economic Times. Urvashi has served on expert committees constituted by the Indian government on artificial intelligence and frontier technologies.

She is also a Fellow at Chatham House and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

From 2017 to 2021, Urvashi was the Founder and Director of Tandem Research, an interdisciplinary research collective working at the interface of technology, society and sustainability.

Urvashi has eight years of teaching experience, as a Lecturer at St. Hilda's College at the University of Oxford and an Associate Professor of International Relations at OP Jindal Global University.

Urvashi has a PhD from the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Oxford, UK, and a BA in Philosophy and Literature from Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Urvashi lives in Goa with her husband and two dogs. Aside from work, she loves travelling, and trekking and has been practising Ashtanga yoga for over a decade.