ABOUT
Prateek Waghre
Head of Programs and Partnerships
Prateek Waghre is a technologist-turned-public policy researcher. He is presently a fellow with Tech Policy Press (2025). He was the Executive Director at the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), a digital rights organization in India, until 2024. He has also been a technology policy researcher at The Takshashila Institution, and spent nearly a decade in the CDN (content delivery networks) industry in product management and solutions engineering roles before turning to public policy research and digital rights advocacy. He is an alumnus of the 'International Visitor Leadership Program' (IVLP) representing India for a program on combatting and identifying disinformation. Prateek is deeply interested in how technologies and their deployment affect liberal democratic societies and spaces. His research interests include digital rights (privacy, surveillance, free expression) and the state of the information ecosystem.
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