Pranesh is a law and policy consultant. He was a co-founder of the Centre for Internet and Society, a non-profit that engages in policy research, where he was a policy director till 2018. He’s an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, and was an India-US Public Interest Technology Fellow at New America in 2019. In 2014, he was selected by Forbes India for its inaugural “30 under 30” list of young achievers, and in 2012, he was nominated as an Internet Freedom Fellow by the U.S. government.
His research interests converge at the intersections of technology, culture, economics, law, and justice. His work has focused on interrogating, promoting, and engaging with policymakers on the areas of access to knowledge (primarily copyright reform), ‘openness’ (including open government data, open standards, free/libre/open source software, and open access), freedom of expression, privacy, digital security, net neutrality, and Internet governance.
He has a degree in arts and law from the National Law School in Bangalore, and while there he helped found the Indian Journal of Law and Technology, and was part of its editorial board for two years.