Raman Jit Singh Chima (Archived Bio)

Raman Jit Singh Chima is Senior International Counsel and Asia Pacific Policy Director at the international non-profit organisation Access Now, where he also serves as the organisation’s Global Cybersecurity Lead. He co-founded India’s SaveTheInternet.in campaign for net neutrality, and later helped co-found the Article 21 Trust and the Internet Freedom Foundation. He assisted the legal team involved in the Supreme Court of India’s landmark Shreya Singhal v. Union of India judgment on Internet free speech, and has been included in Forbes Magazine’s 30-Under-30 list of leaders in India under the Law and Policy category in 2016. He previously served as Policy Counsel and Government Affairs Manager in Google’s Asia Pacific team and held senior roles in industry associations. In 2019, he was awarded a Chevening Cybersecurity Fellowship and completed a programme of study at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. Raman is a graduate of the National Law School of India University at Bangalore, where he co-founded and was later elected chief editor of the Indian Journal of Law and Technology.