How institutions, technology and communication shape public outcomes — and who is left out when they don't work.
Trajectory
Journalism to internet governance
I began in journalism, reporting on media systems and public institutions across national newsrooms. That led to research on gender and violence in South Asian media at UNESCO, then to programme leadership across fourteen countries at CGAP South Asia, then inside the Government of India writing policy communication for the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, then into advertising self-regulation at the Advertising Standards Council of India, and now into internet governance as President of the Internet Society India Mumbai Chapter.
Each move has looked like a different field from the outside. From the inside, it has been the same question in different institutional settings: how do institutions, technology and communication shape public outcomes, and who gets left out when they fail?
My current work concentrates on platform accountability, AI governance and technology-facilitated gender-based violence, with a particular interest in how Global South users and women in public life are protected — or abandoned — by the systems built around them.
Education
Training
SOAS University of LondonMSc International Politics — SOAS University of LondonMerit. Dissertation on algorithmic bias.
PG Diploma in Broadcast Journalism — Asian College of Journalism, ChennaiDistinction.
BA (Hons) History — Maitreyi College, University of DelhiFirst Class.
My SOAS dissertation on algorithmic bias is the bridge between the academic training and the current work: politics → technology → power → platforms → governance.
