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Amlan Mohanty

Amlan Mohanty is a technology policy adviser whose work brings artificial intelligence into India’s legal and public-policy debates. After practising technology law in Bengaluru, he led Google’s public policy and government affairs portfolio in India from 2018 to 2022. He earned a law degree from National Law School of India University and taught technology and AI policy there in 2023 and 2024. At Carnegie India and CeRAI, he published studies of AI regulation, voluntary commitments and risks from AI agents. In 2025, he wrote India’s AI governance guidelines as a non-resident fellow at NITI Aayog; since April 2026, he leads public policy for Anthropic in India.

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Timeline

  1. Before 2018

    Technology law in Bengaluru

    Before joining Google’s policy team in 2018, he practises technology law in Bengaluru.

  2. 2018–2022

    Google policy in India

    From 2018 to 2022, he leads Google’s public policy and government affairs in India across privacy, platforms and responsible AI.

  3. March 2023–July 2024

    Teaching AI policy at NLSIU

    He holds a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from National Law School of India University, where he teaches The Principles and Practice of Tech Policy in March 2023 and AI Policy: Technology, Markets & Regulation in July 2024.

  4. November 2024

    India’s AI regulation roadmap

    In November 2024, he coauthors “India’s Advance on AI Regulation” with Shatakratu Sahu, a paper that examines perspectives across government, industry and civil society and proposes a policy roadmap.

  5. 2025

    India’s AI governance guidelines

    In 2025, he becomes a non-resident fellow at NITI Aayog and leads the writing of India’s AI governance guidelines, published in November 2025.

  6. April 2025

    AI self-regulation research

    As an Associate Research Fellow at CeRAI, IIT Madras, he publishes “Making AI Self-Regulation Work – Perspectives from India on Voluntary AI Risk Mitigation” in April 2025. The paper examines stakeholder views and recommends a policy roadmap for AI self-regulation.

  7. March 2026

    Governing AI agents

    In March 2026, he publishes “Governing AI Agents: Cascading Risks, Coordinated Action,” a paper that traces how failures can spread from individuals to organisations and geopolitical systems.

  8. Since April 2026

    Anthropic’s India policy lead

    Anthropic appoints him to lead its policy efforts in India in April 2026. By October 2026, he leads public policy and external affairs for the company as its India policy head.

Career

  1. Since 2026AnthropicIndia Policy Head
  2. From 2025NITI AayogNon-resident Fellow
  3. From 2025IIT MadrasAssociate Research Fellow
  4. 2023–2024National Law School of India University
  5. 2018–2022GooglePublic Policy and Government Affairs Lead

Education

  1. National Law School of India UniversityB.A., LL.B. (Hons.)

From the biography.

  1. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Amlan Mohanty. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  2. Of 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google, 446 work there nowIncludes Amlan Mohanty. Our estimates of where the 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google and Google DeepMind work now: 446 at Google and 452 across 278 other organizations.
  3. 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyIncludes Amlan Mohanty. We estimate that 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a company; 29% of moves starting at a university went to a company, and 76% ended the university role.
  4. Of 216 AI researchers who entered public life, 83 held advisory seats and 58 took public rolesIncludes Amlan Mohanty. Of 216 AI researchers who entered public life, 83 held advisory seats and 58 took public roles. Another 97 people moved from public careers into AI organizations or research, with 62% of dated records starting from 2020 on.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

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  1. Amlan Mohanty | TASI 2026 Speaker trustandsafetyindia.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Amlan Mohanty - National Law School of India University nls.ac.in. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. India’s Advance on AI Regulation | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace carnegieindia.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Amlan Mohanty amlanmohanty.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Making AI Self-Regulation Work in India - CeRAI’s Substack cerai.substack.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Anthropic taps Amlan Mohanty to lead India policy push moneycontrol.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. Anthropic in talks with MeitY to make AI models available for safety testing, wants binding transparency theprint.in. Checked 20 October 2026.