Akash Kapur is a writer, academic and practitioner who has worked in technology policy for over two decades. He is a Senior Fellow at the GovLab at NYU, and a Visiting Lecturer and Research Scholar at Princeton University, where he is co-leading an initiative on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). His work focuses on data ethics, digital inclusion, AI in the Global South, Internet governance, and the interaction of technology and development.
He is the author of two critically-acclaimed books, the recipient of a Whiting Nonfiction Grant, and writes regularly for a variety of publications, including the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times (where he is a former columnist). He has consulted on technology for a number of organizations, including Bloomberg Beta, the Markle Foundation, and UNDP (where he wrote a manual on Internet governance for policymakers in the Asia Pacific region). Kapur has a BA in Anthropology from Harvard, and a doctorate in Law from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.