Faisal Lalani

Faisal Lalani leads global partnerships and coalition-building with civil society and grassroots groups in South and Southeast Asia at Tech Global Institute. He is a researcher, activist, writer, and technologist with a history of community organising in countries like Nepal, South Africa, and India. His work spans across multiple disciplines, including tech and democracy, public health, education reform, and clinical psychology. His recent work involves analyzing social media patterns of politicians during major elections in India with Microsoft Research, and partnering with U.S. state governments to manage COVID-19 contract tracing through Dimagi. Faisal is a graduate from the University of Oxford's Media Policy Summer Institute and holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is currently a non-resident Fellow at New America's Planetary Politics team.