Bio
Damini Satija is a technology, human rights and public policy expert. She is currently the Interim Director of Amnesty Tech - a 30-person, multi-disciplinary programme working on technology and human rights issues at Amnesty International. She originally joined Amnesty to set up the Algorithmic Accountability Lab to investigative and expose the use of Artificial Intelligence technologies in welfare and social security settings. 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. Prior to her time at Amnesty International, Damini worked in a number of tech policy roles. She was most recently Senior Policy Advisor at the Center for Date Ethics & Innovation, an independent expert body to the UK government on data and AI policy, and the UK’s policy expert at the Council of Europe’s committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights.