Tech Diplomacy Forum Speaker 2025

Manas Chawla

Founder and CEO London Politica and Co-founder and Director Oxbridge Diplomatic Academy

Manas Chawla is a political risk expert and the Founder of London Politica, the world’s largest political risk advisory for social impact. He has advised heads of state, UN agencies and a range of Fortune 500 companies on navigating geopolitical volatility. He is also the Director of the Oxbridge Diplomatic Academy.
An accomplished public speaker, Manas has delivered keynotes on geopolitical risk for leading decision makers at conferences across the world. He is also a regular commentator for a range of international news broadcast programmes including CNN, BBC, CNBC and Bloomberg. Manas holds an MSc from St Antony’s College Oxford, and his PhD research at the LSE explores how Big Tech actors shape the geopolitical order of the twenty-first century.