Payal Arora

Professor and Chair in Technology, Values, and Global Media Cultures

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 co-founder of FemLab.Co, an initiative on the global future of work. She is a Professor and Chair in Technology, Values and Global Media Cultures at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her expertise lies in inclusive design and user experiences among low-income communities worldwide and comes with two decades of fieldwork in such contexts. 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, UNESCO Connectivity in Education, and World Women Global Council in New York. She is Indian, American, and Irish and currently lives in Amsterdam.

Talks About
#digitalfutures #civicengagement #inclusivedesign #platformeconomy #nextbillionusers

Preferred Locations
#NorthAmerica