A. Mukundan 

Mukundan studies accountability and privacy in India’s digital public infrastructures. He does this by bringing together methods and people from computer science, political theory and STS at Ashoka’s new Centre for Digitalisation, AI and Society. His current focus is the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), whose governance model is now being popularized across the Global South. Mukundan is also an analyst at Dalberg Advisors’ New Delhi office. In previous internship stints there, he helped shape platforms like the Atlas for Behaviour Change in Development and NITI for States. His broader experience spans strategy internships at Teach for India and a former cryptocurrency unicorn. He was also a 2021-22 UNAI-MCN Millennium Fellow.

Mukundan graduated summa cum laude from Ashoka University, earning a BA (Hons.) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He also recently completed Ashoka’s Post-graduate Diploma in Advanced Studies and Research, undertaking a year-long political theory research project on India’s Digital Public Infrastructure movement.