Our Team
Founder & Director
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.. A speaker and writer on AI, Innovation and Governance, he regularly speaks, publishes and teaches on reputed platforms.
Uday Nagaraju
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.