Trisha Ray is an associate director and resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center. Her research interests lie in geopolitical and security trends in relation to emerging technologies. Ray is a member of UNESCO’s Information Accessibility Working Group, a Pacific Forum young leader, and a 2022 Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum Asia fellow.
Prior to this, Ray was a fellow at the Center for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Observer Research Foundation in India, where she led projects, researched, and wrote on artificial intelligence governance, India’s technology policies, data protection, platform governance, and cybersecurity. She was also chair of Observer Research Foundation’s flagship technology conference, CyFy.
Ray completed her MA in security studies from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a BA (honors) in journalism from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University.