2023 Asia Foundation Development Fellow

An experimenter in the civic-technology space, Antaraa Vasudev is the founder of Civis, a nonprofit platform that works to enable effective dialogue between governments and citizens on draft laws and policies. She started her career understanding how technology can drive civic engagement during India’s general elections and is driven to help build trust between citizens and government through the use of technology. Vasudez has previously worked at the international nonprofit Asia Society, where she handled policy-related public education programs and track-II dialogues between ministers in the Union Council of Ministers and Kevin Rudd, the former Prime Minister of Australia. In addition to her work at the Asia Society, she has volunteered for the global civic-technology platform Democracy. Earth. She was featured in Forbes’ “Asia 30 Under 30 Class of 2021”.