Urvashi Aneja

Urvashi Aneja is the founding director of Digital Futures Lab. Her current work examines the ethics and governance of AI in the global south; big tech and platform governance; and labour rights and wellbeing. 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.

She has been cited in the BBC, Reuters, and the Economic Times. Urvashi has served on expert committees constituted by the Indian government on AI 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, a research collective working on technology, society and sustainability.

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

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