SAMIR SARAN is president of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India’s premier policy
think tank. He founded and continues to provide board level leadership at ORF’s affiliates in
America and the Middle East. Samir is Curator of the Raisina Dialogue; Co-Chair of the World
Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Geopolitics; and member of the Board of
Governors of The East West Centre, US. Samir has authored four books, edited and curated
many important monographs and journals and written several academic papers and essays.
He is featured regularly in Indian and international print and broadcast media.
ANIRBAN SARMA is Director of the Centre for Digital Societies at the Observer Research
Foundation. His research explores issues of technology policy, with a focus on the digital
economy, platform governance, data, AI, digital public infrastructure and the future of work.
Anirban was a chair of the Think20 task force on digital affairs during the Indian and Brazilian
G20 presidencies. He earlier worked at the National Digital Library of India; and at UNESCO,
where he led the organization’s initiatives on tech for development across South Asia for
nearly a decade.