Leiden University

Host: Samraat Basu is a Lecturer in Law & Technology at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) in the Netherlands. He pursued an Advanced LLM in Law and Digital Technologies from Leiden University, The Netherlands.  

Previously, he has worked with Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in its TMT / Data Protection Team where he advised leading multinational companies on their nuanced queries regarding privacy, gaming, artificial intelligence and machine learning, tele-medicine, Aadhaar, fin-tech and other emergent technology and data protection related issues.  

He was also a research fellow with Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy where he provided legal advice, research assistance and policy inputs to the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Ministry of Finance and the Srikrishna Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill.  He regularly writes for media outlets such as The Economic Times, Hindustan Times-Mint, The Wire, The Indian Express, Firstpost and the Oxford Business Law Blog, and has published academic articles in journals like International Company and Commercial Law Review (Sweet & Maxwell) and Data Protection Leader Journal (DataGuidance).

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