Building human-centric AI strategies that expand access to knowledge, economic opportunity, and agency for frontline communities.
Indian technology leader Debjani Ghosh has spent nearly three decades championing technology as a driver of economic progress and societal well-being. Now leading the Frontier Tech Hub at NITI Aayog, Debjani’s goal is to ensure frontier technologies transform the lives of India’s 490 million informal workers—from street vendors to farmers—who are often invisible in global AI conversations and risk being left behind.
At NITI Aayog, she led the development of India’s first “AI for Inclusive Societal Development” roadmap to expand livelihoods, market access, and skills across the informal economy. Previously, as President of NASSCOM, she spearheaded FutureSkills PRIME, one of the world’s largest public-private digital skilling initiatives, with more than 3.4 million learners—over 40% of them women.
For Debjani, the true measure of technology is not how advanced it is, but whether it expands human capability, dignity and agency—especially for those who have historically had the least access. She believes trust must be the foundation of technology—because without trust, there can be no lasting transformation.