Sunil Abraham

Sunil Abraham is an Indian technology policy analyst and free software advocate, and the director of public policy at Facebook India. and the co-founder and executive director of the Centre for Internet and Society. He is a board member of Open Society Foundations. and an honorary steward at Shuttleworth Foundation. He joined Facebook in October 2020 to lead their Public Policy division in India.

Career In 1998, Abraham founded Mahiti, a company providing low-cost software services to the voluntary sector, Abraham was elected as an Ashoka Fellow in 1999, and received the Sarai FLOSS Fellowship in 2003.

He managed the United Nations' International Open Source Network from 2004 to 2007. In 2008, he co-founded the Centre for Internet and Society, a non-profit research organisation based in India. digital privacy, and net neutrality., He has criticized some of the aspects of Aadhaar, the biometric-based unique identity system of India. He was an early proponent for a data protection law for India.