Payal Arora (PhD) is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University and co-founder of FemLab, a feminist futures of work initiative. She is a digital anthropologist, with two decades of researching user-experiences in the Global South. She is the author of award-winning books including ‘The Next Billion Users’ with Harvard Press and ‘From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech’ with MIT Press. Forbes called her the ‘next billion champion’ and the ‘right kind of person to reform tech.’