Malavika is the inaugural Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub. Prior to her relocation to Hong Kong, she spent three years as a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, focused on privacy, identity, biometrics and data ethics, and eight years in London, with the global law firm Allen and Overy in the Communications, Media and Technology group and as Vice President and Technology Counsel at Citigroup. While a partner at Jayaram and Jayaram in India, she was one of 10 Indian lawyers selected for The International Who's Who of Internet e-Commerce and Data Protection Lawyers directory for 2012 and 2013. In August 2013, she was voted one of India's leading lawyers - one of only 8 women to be featured in the 40 under 45 survey conducted by Law Business Research, London.