Akash Kapur is an academic and writer whose work focuses on data policy, Internet governance, digital public infrastructure, and digital inclusion. He is a senior fellow at The GovLab at NYU, a founding member of the Academic Advisory Council for Krea University (Chennai), and has consulted for a number of organizations, including UNDP,  the Markle Foundation, and more. He is a former columnist for the New York Times, and writes regularly for The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and various other publications. He is the author of two books (“Better to Have Gone” and “India Becoming”), both named Editor’s Choices by the NYT. Akash has a BA (Social Anthropology) from Harvard, and D.Phil. (Law) from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

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