Lubna Yusuf is an author, lawyer and a noted documentary filmmaker based in Mumbai, India. She is the Founder of La Legal and CEO, Co-Founder of FishEyeBox Innovation Lab.
She is the Co-Author of The AI Book on Fintech published by Wiley Publications. Purpose of Flowers, a bestseller Haiku book, is her book of Poetry and Illustrations. She read creative writing at Oxford University. Her articles on AI, Law, privacy & ethics in Deep tech are published in corporate magazines and legal journals.
She is a visiting lecturer of IPR and media laws at NMIMS School of Design. She is also a Mentor of Change for Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, Government of India.
She is the recipient of the Legal Writer’s Award 2019 by Legal Service India for her journal on Film and Media laws. She was the Finalist for the Women-in-Tech Awards at WTF Chicago, in Intelligence and Automation for her role as design strategist & legal tech expert for India's first Autonomous Car System. In July 2020 she has been nominated for ‘Women in AI Leadership Awards’, at Venture Beat Transform 2020 in the Women In AI Entrepreneur segment.
Her debut documentary film Maida (White Flour) is shot across a span of eight years and is based on social issues of dowry, child marriage and girl child education in rural India. It premiered at the Prestigious International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) in June 2019. The UK premier was at We The Peoples Film Festival, the Human Rights Documentary festival of United Nations Association( UNA-UK). It has travelled to 20 international film festivals so far.
She is a mentor, AI legal tech expert and an educator.