Anamitra Deb

he/him

Senior Vice President, Programs & Policy

Anamitra Deb serves as senior vice president of programs and policy at Omidyar Network. In this role, he oversees the organization’s programmatic strategy across platform accountability and regulation; privacy, data governance, and online trust and safety; better tech cultures and products; responsible and open source tech; and guardrails for emergent tech, such as generative AI.

Before that, he served as global lead of Omidyar Network’s Intellectual Capital team, which shaped the organization’s strategic direction, incubated new areas of work, and defined learning and impact across all Programs teams.

Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Anamitra was an associate partner at the Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte), where he co-founded the global Monitor Inclusive Markets practice in 2007 and led multiple engagements for premier philanthropic and global development clients in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

He has authored several reports and lectured about responsible tech, market-based solutions, impact investing, and strategic philanthropy. His writings and perspectives have been featured in major publications, including The Economist, The Washington Post, Wired, Barron’s, Bloomberg, Techonomy, MIT Innovations, Inside Philanthropy, The Times of India, and Outlook India.

Anamitra is a senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He sits on several advisory boards, including Consumer Reports’ Innovation Council and the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas.

As a Rhodes scholar, Anamitra received two master’s degrees from the University of Oxford and is a proud graduate of Mount Allison University and the Lester B Pearson UWC in Canada.

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