Payal Arora

Payal Arora is a Professor at Utrecht University and Founder of Inclusive AI Lab. A digital anthropologist and an award-winning author of The Next Billion Users (Harvard) and From Pessimism to Promise (MIT), she was named among the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics and hailed by Forbes as “the next billion champion.” 250+ international media outlets have covered her work including the Financial Times, Wired, and The Economist. She has given 350+ keynotes in 85 countries including TEDx talks. She is a Harvard and Columbia University, and Rockefeller Bellagio Resident Fellow alumni, and currently lives in Amsterdam.