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Payal Arora

Utrecht University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Columbia University, Harvard University

ORCID iD 0000-0002-3578-340X
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Payal Arora is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University, and Co-founder of FemLab, a feminist future of work initiative. She is a digital anthropologist, TEDx speaker, and author of award-winning books including ‘The Next Billion Users’ with Harvard Press. Her upcoming book, ‘From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” is with MIT Press and Harper Collins India. Her areas of expertise include global digital cultures and inequality, cross-cultural AI ethics, and development of inclusive designs. Forbes named her the “next billion champion” and “the right kind of person to reform tech.” About 150 international media outlets have covered her work including the BBC, Financial Times, The Economist, Quartz, 99% Invisible, Tech Crunch, The Boston Globe, F.A.Z, The Nation and CBC. She has consulted on tech innovation for diverse organizations such as IDEO, Adobe, Spotify, Google, UNESCO, KPMG, GE, UNHCR, and HP and given more than 350 talks in 115 cities in 67 countries alongside figures like Jimmy Wales and Steve Wozniak and TEDx talks on the future of the internet and innovation. She sits on several boards for organizations such as Soteryx (NYC data security company), Prosus Centre for Internet and Digital Economy (Indian government), and the World Women Global Council in New York. She has held Fellow positions at GE, ZEMKI, ITSRio, MICA, and NYU and is a Rockefeller Bellagio Resident Alumnus. She is Indian, Irish, and American and currently lives in Amsterdam.

Employment

  • Utrecht University Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures
    2024 - Present
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam Professor and Chair in Technology, Values and Global Media Cultures
    2019 - 2023
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam Associate Professor
    2015 - 2019
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam Assistant Professor
    2009 - 2015

Education

  • Columbia University PhD
    2005 - 2009
  • Harvard University MA
    2003 - 2004

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Publications (249)