Sorab Shroff

Sorab Shroff works in the Internet industry. Sorab’s parents are deaf, and growing up, witnessing how difficult the world was for his parents made him interested in finding ways of making products and processes simpler and more open to everyone. Sorab was born and brought up in India and moved to the UK when he was seventeen particularly as being gay is easier in Britain.

Sorab believes the cultural and political freedom we have in the West – particularly for women, artists, gay people and disabled people - is precious and believes we should speak out for these freedoms in other cultures like China, Burma, and even in imperfect democracies in Africa and India.