Dr. Arghya Sengupta
Dr. Arghya Sengupta is the Founder and Research Director at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. Vidhi is an independent legal research think-tank, founded with the aim of formulating better laws and improving governance for the public good. Dr. Sengupta’s areas of specialization are constitutional law and regulation of the digital economy. He has served on several government committees including the Justice B.N. Srikrishna-led committee of experts on a data protection framework for India.
Prior to founding Vidhi, he was at Oxford as a Lecturer in Administrative Law at Pembroke College.
He has recently authored a book “Independence and Accountability of the Indian Higher Judiciary” (Cambridge, 2019) which builds on his doctoral work at Oxford University.
Dr. Sengupta has a number of academic publications on the Supreme Court and the Constitution in leading law journals such as, Law Quarterly Review and Public Law. He is a columnist at The Telegraph and The Times of India and writes regularly for leading media outlets.