Payal Arora

Payal Arora
Payal Arora in 2024
Born
Bengaluru, India
Alma materColumbia University
Harvard University
OccupationProfessor of Inclusive AI Cultures
EmployerUtrecht University
Known forThe Next Billion Users
AwardsErasmus University Rotterdam Education Prize (2017)
EUR Fellowship Award (2012)
Association of American Publishers PROSE award for Best book in Business, Management, and Finance (2020)
Websitepayalarora.com
https://femlab.co/
https://www.uu.nl/staff/PArora

Payal Arora is a digital anthropologist, author, and Professor and holds the Chair in Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University. She is the co-founder of FemLab, a feminist future of work initiative. Her work focuses on internet usage in the Global South, specifically on global digital cultures, inequality and data governance. She is Indian, American, and Irish and currently lives in Amsterdam.