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Amba Kak

Amba is a current Mozilla Tech Policy Fellow, former Google Policy Fellow, and a Rhodes Scholar. With Mozilla, Amba is studying how India’s experience protecting the open internet can inform global debates about privacy, security, digital inclusion, net-neutrality and other critical issues.  Previously, she was a legal consultant at India’s National Institute of Public Finance & Policy, where she provided research inputs and legal advisory to governmental bodies on technology policy. Before that, at the Oxford Internet Institute she conducted research on user experience with zero-rated data plans in India and her thesis was awarded distinction. Amba has previously worked in advocacy for the National Campaign for People's Right to Information and served as legal researcher to two high-level committees constituted by the Indian government. Amba holds a degree in law from the National University of Juridical Science, Kolkata. She attended the University of Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship, where she completed a Bachelors in Civil Law as well as a Masters at the Oxford Internet Institute.​