Bhairav Acharya

Program Fellow

Bhairav Acharya was a program fellow at New America’s Open Technology Institute where he worked on transatlantic approaches to communications encryption. In 2013-14, Acharya led a national civil society effort in India to draft a consensus-based privacy legislation. Acharya has also worked at the Centre for Internet and Society and the Supreme Court of India where he participated in a major constitutional challenge regarding wiretaps and press freedoms.