Urvashi Aneja is a researcher, policy analyst and entrepreneur whose work seeks to drive an equitable and just distribution of technology gains.

She is the Founder and Executive Director of Digital Futures Lab, a multi-disciplinary research collective studying the societal impacts of technology transitions in India and the Majority Word.

Her current work focuses on the ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence and she currently leads multiple global projects on Responsible AI, including Generative AI, in LMICs. She regularly advises governments and industry on technology policy. She was recently recognised in Tech Crunch’s 2024 list on Influential Women in AI, and among the top AI researchers in India. She has also written extensively on platform governance, the future of work, and gender and digital rights.

She is currently a member of the UN committee on Safe DPI; the Government of Telangana’s committee on Responsible and Ethical AI; a member of the Expert Advisory Committee for the Global Index on Responsible AI; and on the advisory board for Quad 9. She is also an associate fellow at the Center for Responsible AI, at IIT Madras.

Her research has been cited in leading global and national media such as the MIT Technology Review, Al-Jazeera, BBC, Reuters and Economic Times. This conversation on Al Jazeera with Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa is a good snapshot of her recent research and writing.

Urvashi has a PhD from the University of Oxford.

She was previously 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.

Urvashi lives in Goa with her husband and two dogs. She loves travelling and trekking and has been practising Ashtanga yoga for over a decade.