Payal Arora is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University and co-founder of FemLab, a feminist futures of work initiative and the Inclusive AI Lab. She is a leading digital anthropologist with two decades of user-experience in the Global South. She is the author of award-winning books including �The Next Billion Users� with Harvard Press. Forbes called her the �next billion champion� and the �right kind of person to reform tech.� About 150 international media outlets have covered her work including The BBC, Financial Times, and The Economist. She is on several advisory boards including for UNU eGOV, UNESCO, and IPCIDE. Her new book �From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech� is now out with MIT Press and Harper Collins. She is Indian, American, and Irish, and currently lives in Amsterdam.