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Payal Arora
Professor of Technology, Values, and Global Media Cultures
•Erasmus University Rotterdam
About
Payal Arora is a digital anthropologist and author of several books including the award-winning “The Next Billion Users” with Harvard Press. She is the founder of a digital storytelling organization Catalyst Lab and co-founder of FemLab.Co, an initiative on platforms & the future of work outside the West. She is a Professor and Chair in Technology, Values and Global Media Cultures at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Academic Director at the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics at Rotterdam School of Management. Her expertise lies in ethical AI, inclusive design, and user experiences among low-income communities worldwide and comes with two decades of fieldwork in such contexts.
Recognition
Forbes named her the “next billion champion” and the right kind of person to reform tech. Several international media outlets have covered her work including the BBC, The Economist, Quartz, Tech Crunch, The Boston Globe, F.A.Z, The Nation and CBC. She has consulted on tech innovation for diverse organizations such as UNESCO, KPMG, GE, and HP and has given more than 200 presentations in 54 countries and delivered keynotes alongside Jimmy Wales and Steve Wozniak and a TEDx talk on the future of the internet. She sits on several boards such as Columbia University Earth Institute and World Women Global Council in New York. She is Indian, American, and Irish and currently lives in Amsterdam.