Avantika Banerjee

  • AI as a design principle

    Governance is shifting from an external structure built around systems to a design principle embedded within them. Governance isn’t a layer around the AI system. It is part of how the system is designed. This includes designing boundaries, access, actions, autonomy, human oversight and telemetry into the operational environment, from…

  • Governance in an age of geopolitical uncertainty. An evolving lens.

    We live in a period of significant geopolitical change. There is a rise of multipolarity and competing geopolitical blocs, fragmented economic realities, shifting industrial policies, social and technological disruption, and increasing erosion around international standards and institutions that used to be the normative framework for accountability and trust. In this…

  • Future of Urban Growth – Transit Oriented Development

    What if the future of urban growth isn’t in city centers at all, but in the places we connect to them? The World Bank’s recent report, Cities as Growth Hubs, makes a compelling case for how peripheral regions can become thriving economic centers when transit infrastructure and land-use planning move…

  • India’s AI Summit – A New Era of Global AI Governance

    India’s AI Impact Summit, scheduled for February 16–20, 2026 in New Delhi, marks an important moment in the evolving global conversation on artificial intelligence governance. As the first major AI summit hosted by a Global South nation outside a Western economy, it reflects a broader shift in how AI governance…

  • Emerging Trends in the Mobility Ecosystem

    The COVID-19 global pandemic has fundamentally impacted every aspect of our day-to-day life and one of the sectors most severely affected has been mobility. These last few months have seen far reaching changes in how we move people and goods from one point to another in a safe, secure and…

  • Diversity stressors can have organizational benefits.

    There is a significant and growing body of research which establishes the fact that diversity is a material benefit to an organization and is the driver behind innovation, creativity and increased ROI. However because it is also a concept which can create internal conflict, stress and a feeling of “discomfort” among teams – it’s creation…

  • Diversity Strategy: 6 Factor Analysis

    As organizations tackle gender diversity and appropriate strategies, it is essential to take a step back and ask – Why does your organization want to or for that matter need to build a diversity strategy? Here are 6 foundational factors to consider when analyzing why diversity is important? and what will it help you…

  • Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable – The Gender Lens for Women.

    Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable is a premise which is increasingly gaining traction in terms of leadership development and success. There are various articles [e.g. lifehack, inc., inc., forbes, psychtoday] that address this and conversations surrounding it, but a preliminary review reveals, that current literature appears to driven by either a…

  • Unconscious Gender Bias – Identifying & Managing it.

    As organizations seek to build a more diverse and multi-cultural workforce, one of the more significant impediments towards developing an equitable environment are the unconscious gender biases affecting behavior and lack of processes addressing them. Some such points to consider when developing related diversity initiatives are: The trap of “Act…

  • Diversity’s Last Mile Challenge

      Be it telecommunications, transportation, public management, government, non-profits, technology services or e-commerce, there is one challenge common to all sectors: the last mile challenge. Simply put –  it is the actions taken that enable the delivery of goods or services to the final destination or to the final consumers/beneficiaries.…