Welcoming our new Executive Director Amber Sinha

It is with great excitement that we announce the appointment of Amber Sinha as EDRi’s new Executive Director! Amber will join the organisation in the fourth quarter of 2025, as responsible for leading the organisation in achieving its mission and strategy, securing its financial sustainability and ensuring oversight, and the daily management of the operations.

By EDRi · May 19, 2025

Amber joins the Brussels Secretariat of our network, following the departure of Claire Fernandez after 7 years of leadership.

Amber brings a vision that recognises Europe’s role in the world, civil society’s need for intersectional work and for a justice lens in EDRi’s strategy. EU’s geopolitical ambitions in the world are increasingly driving the continent’s digital agenda. In this context, the perspective of EDRi’s new ED will further connect our work to larger fights, making it even more globally relevant.

Previously, Amber was the Executive Director of the Centre of Internet and Society (India) after leading programmes on civil liberties research, including privacy, identity, AI, cybersecurity and free speech. Amber was also the Director of Research at the Policy Data Institute, a feminist collective of technologists, data scientists, creatives and academics. His leadership and fundraising experience, together with his inclusive approaches to management, have greatly contributed to the teams and organisations he has led.

As a long-term contributor to Tech Policy Press and a Senior AI Fellow with the Mozilla Foundation, Amber has authored many publications on the impact of digital technologies on socio-political processes and structures. Notably, he contributed to the Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance with the piece “Linking caste and surveillance in India: How digital governance has legitimised caste discrimination.”, as well as a paper on what the EU can learn from regulatory innovations on data governance in India, and how to apply them. His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of India, and several government committees, and he serves on the GPA Reference Panel of Global Privacy Assembly.

Amber comes to EDRi with a deep knowledge of digital rights and of the challenges facing digital rights and civil society in Europe and beyond.

Black and white portrait of Amber Sinha on the left side, with a quote on the right. The quote reads: “It is an honour to be chosen as EDRi’s new Executive Director, and I am looking forward to bring a global perspective to current European debates. I am especially committed to strengthening EDRi’s mission and network, to serve as a key multiplier of our collective impact as people suffer from digital authoritarianism, surveillance and control in these increasingly uncertain geopolitical times.” — Amber Sinha The background is light blue with a blue to purple gradient along the bottom edge.