Damini Satija

About

Damini Satija is a technology, human rights and public policy expert. She is currently the Interim Director of Amnesty Tech, the global human rights movement’s technology and human right’s programme which she originally joined to set up the Algorithmic Accountability Lab (an interdisciplinary unit investigating the impact of Artificial Intelligence technologies on human rights). Amnesty Tech works across a range of areas, most notably spyware and cyberattacks, surveillance, state use of AI and automation, big tech and social media accountability and children and young people’s rights in digital environments. Her particular areas of expertise are privacy rights, algorithmic discrimination, government automation and applying an intersectional justice and equity-oriented lens to interrogating tech. Prior to her time at Amnesty International, Damini worked in a number of tech policy roles. She was most recently Senior Policy Advisor in the Center for Date Ethics & Innovation, the UK government’s independent expert body on data and AI policy and the UK’s policy expert at the Council of Europe’s committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights. She has Master’s in Public Administration from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.