Payal Arora is a digital anthropologist and author of award-winning books including “The Next Billion Users” with Harvard Press. Her expertise lies in digital experience and informal learning among low-income communities worldwide and comes with more than a decade of fieldwork experience in such contexts. Forbes named her the “next billion champion” and the right kind of person to reform tech. Several international media outlets have covered her work including the BBC, The Economist, Quartz, Tech Crunch, The Boston Globe, F.A.Z, The Nation and CBC. She has pioneered novel blended learning strategies, which resulted in her being nominated for several teaching awards at the university to national level, including for the ISO (Interurban Student Consultation) ‘Teacher of the Year’ in higher education across the Netherlands. She won the University Education prize in 2017. She is a Professor and Chair in Technology, Values, and Global Media Cultures at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Founder of Catalyst Lab, a digital storytelling organization and Lead Investigator for the Feminist Approaches to Labour Collectives (FemLab.Co) project. She is Indian and currently lives in Amsterdam.