Amit Mistry Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

As the UKs online safety regulator, Ofcom plays a thought leadership role in defining safer recommender systems. Identifying emerging trends and anticipating the ethical challenges, I develop technical and scientifically sound solutions to regulation of novel technologies such as large-scale recommendation systems. My role at Ofcom is to oversee the development of national regulations on recommender systems, ensuring that all policy products are technically sound, practicable, and legible as regulations. Specifically, I have lead the development of 4 new codes of practice that are designed to ensure regulated services design and deploy recommender systems (i.e. social media algorithms) responsibly.My work also includes advancing Ofcom’s understanding of AI governance and accountability. In particular, I am responsible for mapping across the latest and critical technical insights into model evaluations into practically relevant and adaptable mechanisms that can be used in assuring powerful AI models. This work helps bridge the critical space between computer science and regulatory effectiveness.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Led advocacy efforts on issues concerning local and regional infrastructure planning, particularly the need to decarbonise existing assets.• Supported Cabinet Members translate political positions into corporate policy objectives and liaise cross-functionally to advance them towards implementation. • Redesigned, implemented, and communicated a new process for infrastructure planning, streamlining the council’s approach to delivering strategic projects. • Used analytics to grow the council’s community infrastructure investment programme by 160% within 12 months, the largest annual increase in 5 years. • Pursued and secured partnership opportunities; initiated a sustainability project with the London Zoo, helping reduce their annual CO2 emissions by 173 tonnes.• Shortlisted for the Community Trailblazer Award 2021 for curating a digital toolkit that doubled the number of citizens participating in democratic processes.

London, United Kingdom

• Strategically coordinated a campaign to encourage home-sharing platforms improve their commitment to community safety. Meaningfully engaged key opinion formers in the industry and co-designed policy solutions that led to new business practices for operations in London.• Supported the creation of an APPG by facilitating cross-party engagement and supporting MPs agree a common policy position on the sharing economy. • Led analysis on government policy developments and prepared informative briefings/playbooks to assist executives establish lobbying positions. • Prepared compelling reports, strategy memos, and discussion papers on a variety of topics for technical, managerial, executive, expert, and ministerial audiences.• Coordinated the implementation of a service that assists local businesses identify and deliver social purpose projects; 33 businesses benefited from mentoring in the first year.

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Business outreach/engagement support for a digital growth service established to enable small enterprises maximise their digital presence and improve competitiveness. Organised and led workshops for small and medium sized enterprises looking to access grants and introduce new-to-the firm products such as cloud infrastructure, websites, e-commerce and social media marketing strategies.

Norwich, United Kingdom

Leicester, United Kingdom

Artificial Intelligence Programme

Ma Development Economics, Econometrics And Quantitative Economics

Bsc Economics