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Raheel Khursheed is a founder, technologist, and journalist whose work has spanned Twitter, Snapchat, CNN, Mercy Corps, The World Bank and Change.org. Raheel is currently the co-founder of Laminar, next-gen no code a video-streaming infrastructure platform. Prior to Laminar, Raheel founded Anthro.ai, which leveraged the expertise of anthropologists, mathematicians, and data scientists to build ethical, machine-based systems that mapped complex landscapes. Raheel also worked as Head of News, Politics, and Government for Twitter India from 2014-2018. While at Twitter he led the conception, development, and roll-out of multiple award-winning civic tech products. Raheel is a globally well regarded technology leader and for his groundbreaking work of democratising information at scale was named a 2017 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard, a 2017 Yale Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellow at Yale, a member of the 2017 class of Asia 21 - Asia-Pacific’s foremost network of young leaders - and a 2018 Draper-Hills Summer Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Raheel is passionate about the intersection of technology and social change and is a frequent speaker on these issues across conferences and media outlets globally.
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