Every year, TGI’s Tech Policy Fellowship convenes emerging and established researchers from the Global South to explore critical issues in tech accountability and governance. This year, we are hosting fellows from South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
As our fellows dedicate their time to researching and implementing tech policy interventions to address issues around accountability, responsibility, and equity in the Global Majority, we connect them with mentors whose years of work aligns with their research goals. The mentors – well-renowned in their diverse fields – provide intellectual guidance, help connect fellows to broader policy networks, and offer feedback on their research and outputs throughout the fellowship period.
We are delighted to introduce our eminent Tech Policy Fellowship Mentors for the 2025 cohort.
Elina Noor
Elina Noor is a senior fellow in the Asia Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she focuses on developments in Southeast Asia, particularly the impact and implications of technology in reshaping power dynamics, governance, and nation-building in the region. With a background in law and security studies, Noor has contributed extensively to discussions on security in Southeast Asia as well as tech policy and governance frameworks in the region.
Sujata Mukherjee
Sujata Mukherjee is Senior Director of CX & Trust Product Management at Upwork. She is also Chair of the Global Majority Research Committee at Trust and Safety Foundation and has 20 years of experience building trusted product experiences, leading research and scaling CX functions.
Prateek Waghre
Prateek Waghre is a technologist and tech public policy researcher, currently serving as a Fellow at Tech Policy Press. He has previously held the role of Executive Director at Internet Freedom Foundation and been with The Takshashila Institution as a Research Analyst.
Christabel Randolph
Christabel Randolph is Associate Director at the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) and Advocate with the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Prior to CAIDP, she held leadership positions across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East bringing diverse experience to her work on AI governance. She has featured in AI expert panels at MIT’s EmTech, the National Academies for Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine, and Berkeley’s CITRIS Policy Lab. She actively collaborates with public interest organizations in Global Majority countries.
Hassan Abdullah Niazi
Hassan Abdullah Niazi is a partner at Common Law Chambers (CLC) in Pakistan. His practice concerns constitutional law, anti-trust & competition, data protection & privacy, Internet & technology regulation, among others. Hassan has more than a decade of diverse legal experience in litigation and legal advice, has represented clients in major disputes before the High Courts, and has assisted senior advocates before the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Hassan was previously the Lead Legal Counsel for the South and Central Asia region for Meta Platforms Inc. based in Singapore.
Mona Elswah
Dr. Mona Elswah is a Lecturer in Digital Media Governance at the University of Exeter. She is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, where she examines content moderation policies and measures in non-English languages.
