Sabhanaz Rashid Diya is the founder and executive director of Tech Global Institute, a tech policy nonprofit focused on advancing equity in technology design and governance for the Global Majority. Diya has spent more than two decades at the intersection of technology policy, ethics and international development, including advising governments in over 20 countries. She was most recently the head of public policy at Meta, where she led teams responsible for government relations, content governance, privacy and transparency. Diya holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of California at Berkeley and is a senior fellow at the Centre of International Governance Innovation. Her writing and research have appeared on BBC, Wired, Financial Times, The Straits Times, France24, Reuters, The Daily Star and other national and international media.