Javahir Askari is a UK-based tech policy professional and writer with a legal background. Her work focuses on the intersection of technology, regulation, and society, particularly online safety, digital rights, AI governance, and the global implications of emerging technologies.

She most recently served as Public Policy Manager at Block. Prior to that, she was Policy Manager for digital regulation at techUK, where she led work on online safety, fraud, AI, deepfakes, and disinformation. Her work included leading industry engagement on the UK’s Online Safety Act, authoring a report on synthetic media and deepfakes, helping negotiate the UK’s Online Fraud Charter, and chairing cross-sector working groups on online harms and fraud. She has also held roles at the European Commission and the New Statesman.

Javahir holds a Bar Practice Course qualification, a Postgraduate Diploma in Law, an MA Human Rights from University College London, and a BA Politics & International Relations from the University of Nottingham.