Kanishka Narayan is Britain’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Online Safety, a Bihar-born Welsh Labour MP whose career spans the civil service, investment banking, venture capital and technology policy. His appointment gives a first-term parliamentarian influence over AI adoption, online harms, intellectual property, semiconductors and the state’s AI security work.The short biography sounds almost designed for political folklore: Muzaffarpur, a one-bedroom Cardiff flat, an Eton bursary, Oxford, Stanford, the City, Silicon Valley and Westminster. The useful account sits behind that sequence. Narayan benefited from rare educational openings, then worked inside the institutions that fund technology, write policy and make law. His current job asks whether Britain can spread those openings far beyond people carrying a similar collection of credentials.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.