Anu Gupta

Anu Gupta is the author of Breaking Bias: Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From and the Science-Backed Method to Unravel them (2024) with a foreword from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

He is a trained human rights lawyer, scientist, scholar of bias, meditation teacher, and the founder and CEO of BE MORE with Anu, an education technology company that trains corporate, nonprofit, and government leaders to advance inclusion and wellness by breaking bias.

His work has reached 300+ organizations, training more than 100,000 professionals and impacting over 30 million lives. As a gay immigrant of color, he came to the work of breaking bias after almost ending his life due to lifelong experiences with racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia. The realization that bias can be unlearned helped lead him out of that dark point and inspired a lifelong mission to build a global movement for social healing based on principles of mindfulness and compassion.

A peer-reviewed author, his original research was supported by competitive grants from the National Science Foundation, American Heart Association, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Echoing Green, among others. He has written and spoken extensively, including on the TED stage, the Oprah Conversation, TIME, Fast Company, Newsweek, Inc Magazine, People, and Vogue Business.

Anu has a JD from NYU Law, MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge University, and BA in Int’l Relations and Islamic Studies, summa cum laude, from NYU.

He is a student of Buddhism and Kriya Yoga and he has spent over 10,000 hours on retreat at meditation communities in the US and Asia.

Learn more about him at anuguptany.com & bemorewithanu.com, and follow him @anuguptany across social channels.