Payal Arora is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University and co-founder of FemLab, a feminist futures of work initiative and the InclusiveAI Lab, a debiasing data initiative. She is a leading digital anthropologist with two decades of user experiences in the Global South to help shape inclusive AI enabled designs and policies. She is the author of award-winning books including ‘The Next Billion Users’ with Harvard Press. Forbes called her the ‘next billion champion’ and the ‘right kind of person to reform tech.’ 150 international media outlets have covered her work including The BBC, Financial Times, WIRED, and The Economist. She sits on several advisory boards including for the UN EGOV, LIRNE-Asia, and UNICEF-UNESCO. Her new book ‘From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” is out with MIT Press. She is Indian, American, and Irish, and currently lives in Amsterdam.