Summary
Sumandro Chattapadhyay is a Director at the Centre for Internet and Society, Delhi, with 13 years of experience blending policy engagement, applied research, and academic scholarship on the history and politics of informatics, new media, and data governance in India. He co-leads the researchers@work programme, translating interdisciplinary inquiry into practical interventions across digital economies and governance debates. Trained in economics from Visva-Bharati and Jawaharlal Nehru University, he brings quantitative rigor to questions about technology’s societal impacts and emerging methodological approaches. Equally at home with computational techniques for arts, humanities, and social research, he pursues inventive methods that surface often-overlooked historical and political dimensions of digital systems.
13 years of coding experience
MA, Economics, MA, Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics at Visva-Bharati