Sunil Abraham is the Public Policy Director, India for Data Governance and Emerging Technologies at Meta India since October 2020. Under the emerging tech, Sunil also focuses AI and how can it be leveraged for communities in global south. Prior to joining Meta, he was an endowed professor at ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands. Sunil co-founded Mahiti Infotech 23 years ago in Bengaluru which today continues to serve global civil society with free and open source software solutions. He co-founded the Centre for Internet and Society in 2008, which had offices in New Delhi and Bengaluru and served as its executive director for the first 11 years. The Centre has produced policy and academic research in areas like accessibility for the disabled, access to knowledge, openness, internet governance, telecom and digital humanities. Sunil was elected an Ashoka fellow in 1999 to explore the “democratic potential of the Internet.”
