About me
Amba Kak is a world renowned global technology policy expert, who has spent the last fifteen years designing and advocating for policy in the public interest, across government, industry, and civil society – and in many parts of the world. Amba brings this experience to her current role co-leading 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.
Amba 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.
Amba 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 recently testified before Congress at a hearing on artificial intelligence and data privacy. She was named as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2024.
Amba currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Signal Foundation, and the Steering Committee for the Knight-Georgetown Institute in Washington DC. Trained as a lawyer, Amba 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 Masters 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.
