Akash Kapur is a Visiting Research Scholar and Lecturer whose work at Princeton focuses on digital public infrastructure (DPI). As part of this work, he co-taught a class on DPI, and he examines the global dissemination of technology and governance frameworks for digital identity, payments, and data exchange. In addition, he is researching the intersections of DPI and artificial intelligence (AI), in particular by considering open source and public models.   

Kapur is also a Senior Fellow at The GovLab, where he works on data policy and Internet governance; and a Senior Fellow at New America, where he focuses on global AI governance. He has consulted on technology policy for various organizations, including UNDP, and 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 also the author of two critically-acclaimed books (Better to Have Gone and India Becoming), both named Editor’s Choices by the NYT. Kapur has a BA (Social Anthropology) from Harvard, and D.Phil. (Law) from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.