Bedavyasa Mohanty is a Public Policy Manager with WhatsApp where he drives global policy engagement in defense of privacy and encryption. He was previously an Associate Fellow with Observer Research Foundation’s Technology Initiative in New Delhi. A lawyer by training, Beda received his BA LLB (Hons) from the National University of Juridical Sciences in India and as a Grotius Fellow, received his masters in law from the University of Michigan Law School.