Sagar vishnoi
Co-Founder Of Future Shift Labs in Noida
Sagar is Director & Co-Founder of Future Shift Labs, a global think tank working at the intersection of AI governance, digital policy, and civic technology. FSL's mission is to position India as a global leader in digital diplomacy, drive in-depth research, and foster international collaboration — advocating for positive AI applications that address global challenges.
Sagar has been part of various political war-rooms since 2013 where he has helped politicians & political parties in forming communication strategies, application of strategy on ground from local candidates to Presidential Elections in South East Asia.
Sagar operates across three distinct levels of impact, simultaneously shaping global AI governance frameworks, translating them into Indian policy, and ensuring they reach the citizens they are meant to protect. At the international level, he is working with Members of Parliament from India, the United Kingdom, Europe and Africa on AI governance and represented India's AI policy perspective at global convenings. He is a Global Advisory Member to the Better Politics Foundation on AI and Progressive Politics, and a member of the Coalition for Responsible Evolution of AI (CoRE-AI).
At the national level, Sagar works with the AI Legislators' Forum (AILF) to build legislative capacity on AI — helping Indian parliamentarians understand and engage with technology policy before they vote on it. He has written and spoken extensively on India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, the IndiaAI Mission, and the country's Digital Public Infrastructure stack as a model for Global South nations. He has also contributed a chapter to a Pontifical Academy of Sciences publication on risks and opportunities of AI for children — one of the few Indian voices in that global conversation
At the grassroots level, Sagar founded Yashoda AI: FSL's flagship initiative for AI literacy for women in rural India — taking the conversation about artificial intelligence directly to village communities, women, and dalit/tribal ccommunity who are most affected by AI but least informed about it. Also, FSL conducted deepfake awareness and AI safety workshops with the Uttar Pradesh Police in Shravasti — one of India's most under-resourced districts — becoming one of the first district-level AI awareness programmes with full government cooperation, a model now recommended by international regulatory bodies for replication across the Global South. For this work, Sagar was conferred the Polaris Award 2025 in London for citizen-first tech policy innovation.
Sagar has written regularly on issues of technology, politics, policy, governance and AI for The Print, Deccan herald, Zee News, Moneycontrol, Dainik Bhaskar and got quoted for his work and gave comments on publications like Vice, Rest of The World, MIT Tech Review, Wired, Al Jajeera, Reuters, Le temps, CNN, Le Soir, The Verge, BBC, The Economic Times, The Diplomat, The Hindu, NDTV, Aajtak, News 18, Dainik Bhaskar, The Indian Express, Dainik Jagran & Financial Express.
Sagar has been awarded by United Nations and spoken at TEDx platform, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard University, Europe parliament, British Parliament and 50+ other public forums & think tanks worldwide on How Emerging technologies can disrupt democracy for good.
He has studied strategy from Columbia B-School, USA & Public Policy from India School of Business, Mohali as executive education.
He believes that an AI revolution which does not reach the last tribal woman in remote village raising the next generation is not a revolution, it is simply a new technology for the privileged.