Usama Khilji is co-founder and Director of Bolo Bhi, an advocacy, policy, and research citizens group focused on digital rights and internet policy. He serves as the Vice Chair of the Global Network Initiative. He also serves on Meta’s data protection experts group for Asia Pacific, and was a 2021 member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Systemic Inequality and Social Cohesion.

Usama regularly trains member of the judiciary in Pakistan on matters related to cybercrime and internet regulation, regularly testifies before the Parliament of Pakistan, and has written international expert witness reports in data protection cases in the high courts of England.

Khilji is a columnist for Dawn, and has written for Slate Magazine, Al Jazeera English, LSE South Asia Blog, LSE Review of Books, Herald, and Aurora Magazine.

He holds an MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where he was a Chevening scholar.