Amritha Jayanti is a senior project manager, civic technologist, and researcher. She was recently the Associate Director at Harvard Belfer Center’s Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Project where she spearheaded research under the late Secretary Ash Carter across emerging tech, biotechnology, advanced energy, and space technology. Prior to Belfer, she was a tech policy researcher at University of Cambridge and Brookings Institution. While working in the private sector, she led product at Clara Labs, a Y-Combinator machine learning startup. Amritha has a degree in computer engineering, economics, and public policy.