Smriti Parsheera is lawyer and public policy researcher focused on issues at the intersection of technology and society. She is a current Interledger Research Ambassador working on a project to understand the lived experiences of digital and financial inclusion in the remote Himalayan district of Lahaul-Spiti in northern India. She is also a Non-Resident Fellow with the CyberBRICS Project at FGV Law School, Brazil and serves on the board of Point of View, an organization that explores digital technologies through a feminist lens. Smriti has contributed to numerous research publications and book projects on topics that include privacy and data governance, digital public infrastructure and competition policy. Her edited book, Private and Controversial: When Public Health and Privacy Meet in India, was published by HarperCollins in 2023. Smriti studied law at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore followed by a LLM from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. She is currently pursuing a PhD in policy studies from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.