Prateek Waghre

Prateek Waghre is a technologist-turned-public policy researcher in India. Most recently, Prateek was the Executive Director / Policy Director at the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), a digital rights organization in India. Prior to IFF, he was a technology policy researcher at The Takshashila Institution. Prateek spent nearly a decade in the CDN (content delivery networks) and technology industries in product management and solutions engineering roles before turning to public policy research. He is deeply interested in how technology and its deployment affect liberal democratic societies and spaces. His research interests include the state of the information ecosystem, how the states seek to impose their will on it, how parts of society seek to exploit the inherent openness of digital spaces, and the evolution of digital rights (privacy, surveillance, free expression) in liberal and authoritarian environments.