Aparna Surendra is a technology policy analyst at AWO Agency, a law firm and consultancy that empowers individuals and organisations to uphold data rights, comply with the law and effect change in data protection and digital policy. Surendra leads AWO’s algorithm governance workstream and oversees research projects focused on emerging technologies, including AI. She has served on the Program Committee for the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency and is a member of RealML, a collaborative expert workshop investigating the social impacts of algorithmic systems. Alongside technology policy, Aparna writes fiction. She is currently in residence at Somerset House Studios, and has previously held residencies at Tin House and the London Library.
