Amba Kak has spent the last 15 years designing and advocating for technology policy in the public interest, ranging from network neutrality to privacy to algorithmic accountability, across government, industry, and civil society—and in many parts of the world. Kak brings this experience to her current role coleading AI Now, a US-based research institute where she leads on advancing diagnosis and actionable policy recommendations to tackle concerns with artificial intelligence and concentrated power.

Kak recently completed her term as Senior Advisor on AI at the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to AI Now, she was Global Policy Advisor at Mozilla; and also previously served as legal advisor to India’s telecommunications regulator (TRAI) on net-neutrality rules. She regularly advises members of Congress, the White House, the European Commission, UK government, the City of New York, US, and other regulatory agencies worldwide; and has testified before Congress multiple times on AI policy issues. Kak currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Signal Foundation. Trained as a lawyer, she received her BA LLB (Hons) from the National University of Juridical Sciences in India, and is a former recipient of the Google Policy Fellowship and Mozilla Policy Fellowship. She has a master’s in law (BCL) and an MSc in the social science of the internet at the University of Oxford, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar.