Meet Our Experts
CORE TEAM
Uday combines leadership and experience in technology and policy with a deep interest and understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on policy and governance. An advocate of international cooperation on AI, he conceptualised and proposed a Commonwealth Partnership on AI. A speaker and writer on AI, Innovation and Governance, he regularly speaks, publishes and teaches on reputed platforms. He is also Co-Founder and Executive President of Global Policy Insights. Twitter: @uday_nagaraju
Uday Nagaraju
Swati is an Economist and a Development Policy expert with over 10 years of experience. She is a strategic leader and thinker with an understanding of the importance of leadership in transformational change.She was the lead analyst for evaluating social projects for Multilateral Development Banks at the Ministry of Finance, Government of India including AI driven projects. She also has several consulting experiences with the Industry Associations, TERI and other NGOs. She is a member of the Government Blockchain Association and a Nuffic Fellow on Climate Policy and Clean Energy. She is a Foresight Scholar with University of Geneva.
Swati Agarwal
Bhanu is the Founder & CEO of Green Hats Innovation Labs. He is an alumni of LBS Sloan Fellow and TEDMED Research Scholar. Prior to starting his own organisation Bhanu has had years of experience with Cisco Systems and Nokia Corp.
Bhanu Ghantasala
Elizaveta holds a BA in International Relations and War Studies from King's College London and MA in International Affairs at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. She previously worked with the UN Office in Vienna and is currently engaged in the field of security sector governance, based in Geneva. Her international background in upbringing and studies helped Elizaveta develop a passion for security and diplomacy, with specific interest in conflict prevention and mediation, with a focus on Europe and Asia.
Elizaveta Chymkh
Naman is a Masters in Political Science from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is passionate about applying emerging technological solutions tosocial & political causes. Her interests range from poverty, gender, and ending inequality.
Naman Singha
Sreeram is an EPSRC funded PhD scholar at University of Exeter, working on cost-effective manufacturing techniques of Perovskite solar cells. Prior to that he received Commonwealth Shared Scholarship from DFID (Department for International Federation), UK, for pursuing his Masters in Renewable Energy engineering. He also holds a B-Tech degree from CUSAT in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He has worked with various startups and NGOs in the clean energy sector.
Sreeram VS
Krutika is currently working as a Data Scientist at Fractal. She holds a Masters in IT for Business- Data Analytics Track from Singapore Management University (SMU).Her interests include application of AI for social good and Ethical AI.
Krutika Choudhury
Shilpita is a governance expert primarily working on the role of AI governance and its impact on digital trade agreements between major AI economies and developing countries. She is also working on the role of state and business in framing regulatory policies for platform firms. Previously, she has also worked with organisations like Facebook, Newschecker, and fertiliser industry.
Shilpita Das
Abrar has keen interest in evaluating AI’s role in organisations, Change and People Analytics given his background in Human Resources. He is currently pursuing his Masters at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research interests include Security Studies, conflict and International Developmental Economics across the globe.
Abrar Agboatwala
Rukmini Kota is a Software Professional with about 12 years of diverse experience in the industry. She holds a Masters degree in Computer Science with a specialisation in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. She believes that the digital transformation of the world would have a great impact on Global development and is passionate to expand her knowledge and expertise in Business Architecture and Strategy Making.
Rukmini Kota
Luigi is a policy analyst and International Relations researcher. Having recently graduated from Sciences Po's Doctoral School, he focuses his efforts on the impact of AI on the future of Education
Luigi Fiora
ADVISORS
Nero is the Former Special Adviser to the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, designing and leading central Government’s policy responses on key issues.
Nero Ughwajabo
Ivana Bartoletti is an award-winning privacy and data protection practitioner, public speaker, author and media commentator. She was awarded ‘Woman of the Year’ (2019) in the Cyber Security Awards in recognition of her growing reputation as an advocate of equality, privacy and ethics at the heart of tech and AI. She is co-editor of the Fintech Circle’s AI Book on how AI is reshaping financial services, and author of ‘An Artificial Revolution: on Power, Politics and AI’, published in 2020 May by Indigo Press. www.ivanabartoletti.co.uk @IvanaBartoletti
Ivana Bartoletti
Dr Rao was formerly Pro-Director at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She has extensive experience of public service and served as an advisor to a range of bodies including the UK Audit Commission and the UK Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). She was awarded an OBE for services to scholarship in Queen’s honours 2011. She is currently Honorary Fellow at the University of Cambridge, a member of Governing Body of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and a Trustee of United World Schools.
Dr Nirmala Rao, OBE
Edson is heading the Phi Robotics Research Group at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Edson is Member of the UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group for the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence; Member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation; South America Ambassador at IEEE TechEthics; Member of UNESCO IFAP Information Accessibility Working Group; Member of the MIT/IEEE Global Council on Extended Intelligence and Past Associate Vice President on the IEEE RAS Industrial Activities Board.
Prof. Dr. Edson Prestes
Dr Sarkar is the former head Head of Data Analytics Cell and Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India Aayog) premier policy think-tank of Government of India. At NITI Aayog, Dr. Sarkar helped in developing roadmaps for use of data, analytics and artificial intelligence for Governance, Policy making across various sectors for India's inclusive growth and led efforts towards setting up the first High Performance Computing based Data Analytics Lab and Energy Modeling Unit at NITI Aayog. He is currently teaching at the Indian School of Business and heading India Data Portal.
Dr Avik Sarkar
Former Head, Data Analytics, NITI Aayog, Government of India
Dr. Jérôme Duberry is a Senior researcher at the Dusan Sidjanski Centre of Excellence in European Studies, Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva, and a Research associate at the Albert Hirschman Center on Democracy, Graduate Institute. His current research activities focus on how artificial intelligence can foster the participation of civil society in policy-making processes at national and international levels.
Dr Jérôme Duberry
Lecturer, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Nishtha is the Deputy Country Representative for UN Women, the entity of the United Nations that is dedicated to working towards Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, in India. She is the youngest woman to represent UN Women amongst 193 countries. In her long standing career in the United Nations, she manages the UN Women Office for a geo-politically diverse group of countries including India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka. Previously, she has also served as the Private Sector Partnerships Specialist with the Office of the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations and UNDP.
Nistha Satyam
Youngest Country Representative to represent UN Women
Soenke holds a PhD in Natural Sciences from the University of Hamburg, which he received within a Doctoral Program in Artificial Intelligence. He has worked for the United Nations in the humanitarian, recovery and sustainable development fields as well as in data and information management. Currently he is a Fellow at AI Policy Labs. He has published various peer-reviewed articles about AI safety and ethics and also related to the SDGs. He is based in New Delhi.
Dr Soenke Ziesche
Author on AI Safety, Ethics, SDGs
Arpit Chaturvedi is the Director of the Global Policy, Diplomacy, and Sustainability Fellowship. He is the CEO of Global Policy Insights, a centrist thinktank based in India, USA, and the United Kingdom. Arpit is the author of the book - Our Egalitarian Universe and has served as the Editor in Chief of the Cornell Policy Review. He also serves as the Senior Expert Editor of International Political Economy and Governance at the Defense and Intelligence (journal) Norway.
Arpit Chaturvedi
Co-Director, Global Policy, Diplomacy, and Sustainability Fellowship
Bhanu is the Founder & CEO of Green Hats Innovation Labs. He is an alumni of LBS Sloan Fellow and TEDMED Research Scholar. Prior to starting his own organisation Bhanu has had years of experience with Cisco Systems and Nokia Corp
Bhanu Ghantasala
TED MED Research Scholar
Dr. Rao is a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India with 34 years of practice. His areas of specialisation are Litigation, Legal Advicein the field of Constitutional Law, Taxation, International Law, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, and Cyberlaws, Telecom, Economic offences, Shipping and Banking. He has been an office-bearer of prestigious organisations like the Global Policy insights, World Peace Congress, Nakhonayok Thailand, Global Education Law Forum (GELF). He has been a recipient of numerous Awards and Honours like ‘Bharat Gaurav Award’, ‘Protector of Democracy Award’ ‘National Bar Award’, ‘Best Faculty Award’. He is a Fellow of the Rhodes Oceans Law & Policy Institute - Greece, Georgetown University-USA, Salzburg Institute of American Studies, Austria.
Dr G Venkatesh Rao
Mirra is the Global Head of Technology Risk at Schroders with over 13 years of experience in technology risk and assurance within the financial services industry. Her key focus is to embed a culture of risk awareness within technology functions that enables faster pace of change and adoption of new technologies to achieve business objectives whilst ensuring security, stability and resilience of business operations.Mirra is a member of the Next Generation Leadership Council at TheCityUK. She was featured in Financial Times - Top 50 Empower list of Ethnic Minority Future Leaders 2018 and UK’s top 100 most influential Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic leaders in Technology sector.
Mirra Sondhi
Top 100 BAME leaders in Tech Sector, UK
EMpower future leader
Technical leader experienced in driving R&D for digital transformation within Healthcare and Energy sectors. Expert in techno strategy, innovation and product development , with a solid track record of building high-performance teams.
Sharath Sirivolu
Oniel is a Principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP. He currently leads the Cloud Integration offering for Deloitte Government and Public Sector practice. He specialises in advising clients to achieve IT Modernisation and Digital Transformation by leveraging an API Led approach to Integration and creating a scalable architecture for integrating application and data. He also focuses on harnessing the power of Cloud, Cyber, and AI to enable our clients to leverage emerging technology to drive modernisation.
Oniel Cross
Edson is heading the Phi Robotics Research Group at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Edson is Member of the UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group for the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence; Member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation; South America Ambassador at IEEE TechEthics; Member of UNESCO IFAP Information Accessibility Working Group; Member of the MIT/IEEE Global Council on Extended Intelligence and Past Associate Vice President on the IEEE RAS Industrial Activities Board.
Edson Prestes
INTERNS
Jiaqian is a postgraduate student of MA public policy at King's College London and participated in a number of urban safety policy research activities during her undergraduate period. Research interests include international relations and democratic policy.
Wang Jiaqian
Mohammed is currently pursuing an MA in Public Policy at King's College London. Prior to this he worked in events management, with an Undergraduate degree from the University of Warwick in Ancient History and Classics. He has a particular interest in AI and future technology policy management.
Mohammed Taher
Zhuohong is currently studying MA in Public Policy at King’s College London, undertaking subjects such as policy process, political economy and quantitative methods. He is interested in economic development, game theory and artificial intelligence. He has previously interned with government of Guangdong Province in China
Li Zhuohong
Aniruddh is a BSc Business with Law student at Queen Mary, University of London. He has an immense passion for politics, technology, academia and debating. Originally from Nainital, Uttarakhand in India; Aniruddh has been a member of GPI since April 2020
Aniruddh Singh
I am an engineering student from Indore passionate about education and sustainable development. I hope to become an entrepreneur one day. My hobbies are reading and doing illustrations
Rubi Jain
Ruchi is a postgraduate student of MA Diplomacy, Law, and Business at O.P. Jindal Global University. Prior to this she interned with UN Global Compact Network- India, with an undergraduate degree in Economics from Fergusson College. Her interests lie in economic policies, social and gender equality.
Ruchi Yemul
Sidhant is a student of integrated law course (BA LL.B.) with majors in Political Science and Criminal Laws simultaneously pursuing B.Sc. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Chief Regulatory Officer (International) & Head of Ethics for an Agri-Tech startup based in Canada – Artenal – and is an Assistant Editor for the ALSD Student Journal.
Sidhant Arora
Udit Malik is a researcher and human rights expert. He worked on various national & international projects and judged countless debates. He has worked with the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and now with an international NGO.