Amrita Sengupta is a CyberBrics fellow, conducting research on AI governance and sovereignty, and the interactions of AI and digital public infrastructure, at the Centre for Technology and Society-FGV, Rio de Janeiro. Until recently Amrita was the Research and Programme Lead at the Centre for Internet and Society, India. A trained sociologist, Amrita’s research interests and work lie in the areas of AI governance, trust and online harms, platform accountability, information disorders, and gender and technology. She holds an undergraduate degree in sociology from Miranda House, Delhi University, and a postgraduate degree in internet studies from the Oxford Internet Institute. In the past, Amrita has worked in managing and implementing large scale people practices, diversity and inclusion in the workplace, as well as in conducting and leading long-form research on impacts of emerging technologies on businesses and society, with both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Amrita is on the Board of The Green Web Foundation, which investigates the environmental impacts of technology.
Joined: 2025