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AI & Governance
What happens when generative AI, regulation, model risk, legal accountability and organisational incentives collide.
Author · Educator · AI & Governance
A mind
between
disciplines.
Writing, teaching and working at the intersection of technology, institutions, markets and human ambition.
Engineer. Lawyer. Oxford MBA.
Senior AI and digital transformation leader with 15+ years across regulated finance, scientific publishing, consulting, venture building, development and industrial R&D.
Now writing books, teaching advanced interdisciplinary courses and building a public body of work around technology, governance, education and careers.
01 · Ideas
Technology changes faster than institutions. The interesting work happens between the two.
A body of work spanning AI governance, economics, organisations, education, careers and the choices people make inside complex systems.
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Institutions & Markets
Strategy, economics and institutional decision-making — with particular attention to technology's changing role.
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Education & Human Potential
UPSC, MBA preparation, careers, learning and the difficult question of how to spend a finite life well.
A working philosophy
“I am interested in what happens when ideas meet institutions — when technology meets law, ambition meets incentives, and theory meets the messy reality of human organisations.”
02 · Books
A body of work in progress.
The writing ranges deliberately: UPSC preparation and careers, data science, management, spirituality, essays, fiction and biography.
Coming from Jaico
The UPSC Survival Blueprint
How to Navigate the Civil Services Grind Without Compromising Your Career, Wealth, or Identity.
A practical, unsentimental guide to preparing for one of India's most competitive examinations without allowing the examination to consume the life around it.
The UPSC Survival Blueprint
UPSC · careers · education
Beyond the Attempt
UPSC · careers · what comes after the examination
Free MBA is the Best MBA
MBA preparation · management · decision-making
The Dancer & the Dagger
Historical fiction · India
My Guru Ramaiah
Biography · education · modern India
More to come
Data science · spirituality · essays · management · fiction
03 · Writing
The blog is where the thinking becomes public.
Essays can start as lectures, arguments, book ideas or questions that refuse to go away.
AI & Governance · Essay
The AI Governance Problem Isn't AI
Why governance failures are usually failures of ownership, incentives and institutional design.
Read essay →Institutions & Markets · Essay
The Economics of Algorithms
Algorithms are mechanisms for allocating attention, opportunity and power.
Read essay →Education & Careers · Essay
The 0.2% Problem
What extreme competition does to the psychology of preparation.
Read essay →04 · Teaching
I don't teach AI as a collection of tools. I teach what happens when those tools enter institutions.
Open to Adjunct Professor of Practice / Guest Faculty opportunities where real-world experience can become rigorous, discussion-driven classroom learning.
Visiting Faculty · NLSIU · 2026
Real World AI Governance
Practice-led teaching built around cases, failure analysis and institutional decision-making. The course connects AI technology to law, regulation, organisational incentives and governance.
CASE-DRIVEN
Real organisational and regulatory situations rather than abstract frameworks.
FAILURE-ORIENTED
What went wrong? Who knew? Which incentives produced the outcome?
INTERDISCIPLINARY
Technology, law, economics and management treated as one problem.
NLSIUUniversity of OxfordIIM TiruchirappalliUniversidade de São PauloOsmania UniversityBITS PilaniTetr College
05 · Practice
A career built across industries, institutions and stages of scale.
The early years in industrial R&D and development-sector work are part of the story — not footnotes. They shaped the systems thinking that later informed startups, consulting and enterprise AI.
Foundations · 2010–2015
2010 — 2012
Aditya Birla Science and Technology Company Pvt. Ltd.
Research Engineer
Worked at the intersection of industrial R&D and business problems, building a foundation in applied engineering and technology.
2012 — 2015
Safe Water Network
Executive Assistant to Country Director
Worked across technology, partnerships and public-sector implementation in a mission-driven environment spanning multiple geographies.
Building · 2015–2022
2015 — 2018
Aqua Analytics · London
Co-Founder & Head of Product
Built analytics products used by Fortune 500 firms, utilities and public agencies.
2017 — 2018
Zinc VC · London
Venture Fellow & Fractional CTO
Fractional technology lead for seven early-stage startups across health-tech and social impact.
2018 — 2020
Sabre Corporation · Bengaluru
Senior Consultant · Data Science & Analytics
Led analytics and digital implementations for airline businesses across APAC and EMEA.
2020 — 2022
Affine.ai · Bengaluru
Principal AI & Data Architect
Led AI strategy and solution architecture across 70+ client engagements globally.
Enterprise AI & Risk · 2022–Present
2022 — 2024
Springer Nature · Lisbon
Director of Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Established and led the Global AI Centre of Excellence across 30+ countries; delivered AI products serving 40M+ monthly users and initiated organisation-wide AI ethics, governance and risk discussions.
2024 — 2026
Citibank · Bengaluru
Vice President, Data Science: Generative AI & Governance
Led enterprise GenAI initiatives across Retail Banking and Cards; delivered $21M cost savings in the first year and worked with legal, compliance and risk teams on governance frameworks.
2026 — Present
Citibank · Chennai
Senior Vice President, Thematic Risk
Leading development of AI-powered Thematic Risk Analysis for the Credit Cards portfolio; built the Thematic Risk AI CoE, defined its vision, hired a team of six VPs and partnered across Lines of Business to identify, quantify, control and mitigate emerging risks across 52 regulations.
$21MFirst-year AI cost savings
40M+Monthly users reached
70+Global AI engagements
52Regulations in thematic-risk scope
06 · Speaking
Ideas designed for rooms where decisions matter.
University lectures, executive education, faculty development, AI governance workshops and keynotes.
Selected topics
Real-World AI Governance
AI in Regulated Industries
AI for Managers — Implementation Best Practices
Economics of Algorithms
AI in Scientific Research & Publishing
Responsible AI
Digital Transformation
Strategy in the Age of AI
Selected audiences
CitibankSpringer NatureUniversity of OxfordNLSIUIIM TiruchirappalliUniversidade de São PauloGartner Partner Summit · LondonIIScOsmania UniversityAIM BengaluruBetter Societies Summit · New York
07 · About
A career between disciplines.
Engineering taught me how systems work. Data science taught me how organisations use information. An MBA taught me how institutions make decisions. Law taught me what happens when those decisions encounter rules, rights and accountability.
My work today sits somewhere in the middle — and my writing and teaching are an attempt to make that middle visible.
University of Oxford
MBA
Saïd Business School · Weidenfeld-Hoffmann and Saïd Scholar
Osmania University
LL.B. · First Class
Law, regulation and accountability
BITS Pilani
B.E. (Hons.)
Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering
AIM 40 Under 40 Data Scientists
2023
2023
RBI Innovation Hub · AI Expert
IEEE P2863 Working Group
Organizational Governance of AI
Organizational Governance of AI
Springer Nature SN150
Top 1.5% of leadership talent
Top 1.5% of leadership talent
Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld Hoffmann and Saïd Scholar
University of Oxford
University of Oxford
08 · Contact
For teaching, speaking, writing or serious conversations.
Academic collaborations, Adjunct Professor of Practice opportunities, executive education, speaking invitations, media enquiries and conversations about books are welcome.