Lavanya Singh

Founder

New Delhi, Delhi, India14 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Founder of a Public Policy & Strategic Communications firm.
Key player in launching Uber and Netflix in South Asia.
Expert in technology policy and communication strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Public Policy and Strategic Communications expert with a focus on technology and media.

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Legal ResearchHuman Rights ResearchInternational Human RightsPolicy ResearchChild AdvocacyPublic SpeakingLegal WritingCriminal JusticePublic International LawChildren's RightsSocial JusticeJuvenile JusticeFood Security

About

Lavanya is the Founder of Kaio a Public Policy & Strategic Communications firm that exists at the intersection of technology, media and public policy. The company's mission is to build powerful communication strategies that can drive policy change and create social impact. A lawyer by training from National Law University, Delhi, she was part of the early teams that set up Uber and Netflix in India & South Asia. At Uber, she helped launch and scale South Asian operations, working closely with governments on innovation and regulatory frameworks. At Netflix, she built creative communication strategies and played a key role in shaping self-regulatory frameworks, contributing to India’s IT Rules, 2021, with a focus on balancing creative freedom with local nuances. She is a strong believer that creativity can be a catalyst of social change.

Experience

14 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs

Current Experience

Kaio

Founder & CEO, Kaio

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

Founder of Kaio a Public Policy & Strategic Communications firm that exists at the intersection of technology, media and public policy.

National law university delhi

Visiting Faculty

Feb 2022 – Jun 2022 · 4 mos

The Evolving Technology Policy Landscape in India: A full credit course that seeks to assess the dynamic and evolving policy frameworks in India to regulate technology. This course dives deep into the impact of technology policy and its progression in India.

Netflix

2 roles

Manager, Public Policy, India and South Asia

Oct 2020 – May 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Lead, Public Policy, India & South Asia

May 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

Uber

2 roles

Head of Policy, North India & New Mobility

Promoted

Dec 2018 – May 2019 · 5 mos

Focused on building a favourable regulatory framework to enable new technology and innovative products such as UberMOTO, Electric Vehicles and other New Mobility products in India and South Asia.
Led regulatory affairs for Uber's markets in North India.
Worked extensively on clean air and decongestion initiatives in the region - including leading the execution and planning of Uber's award winning public affairs campaign called "Help Delhi #LowerTheWindow".
Led and executed key partnerships focused on women safety, including a national gender sensitisation program, as well as an integration with the Delhi Police's women safety app.

Public Policy Lead

Jul 2015 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Undp

Policy Researcher

Apr 2015 – Jun 2015 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Research Assistant for for a public policy project that analyzed rights-based legislations in the Asia and Pacific Region

Human rights law network and centre for constitutional law, policy and governance

Research Assistant

Apr 2015 – Jun 2015 · 2 mos

• Researched and assisted in compiling a manual on all cases related to prisoner rights in India.

At the centre for communication and governance, nlu delhi

Researcher for the Law Commission of India

Sep 2014 – Sep 2014 · 0 mo

• Analyzed responses received by the Law Commission of India to its Consultation Paper on Media Laws and helped prepare a report that documented different perspectives, offered by stakeholders and other respondents, on the situation of Media Law in India.

Save the children, india

Intern, Policy Research and Advocacy Dept.

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos

• Helped prepare documents that critically analyzed child right legislations and policies in India (including the Juvenile Justice Bill, 2014) and presented them to the ministry recommending changes.

Right to food campaign, india

Intern

Jan 2014 – Jul 2014 · 6 mos

• Researched extensively on welfare schemes in India and updated the Right to Food Campaign website with comprehensive information. This was done primarily through interaction with relevant ministries and research on the official Government portals.

Alliance for the rights to eccd

Policy Researcher

Sep 2013 – May 2014 · 8 mos

•Assisted in the preperation of a policy paper on Model Rules for the National Food Security Act, 2013.

Death penalty research project, national legal services authority and nlu, delhi

Field Researcher

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

•Field work - Tracked and interviewed the families and lawyers of Death Row Prisoner in New Delhi in order to help in the documentation and analysis of their socio-economic profile