Meta’s India VP Sandhya Devanathan Joins OpenAI as Company Expands Asia‑Pacific Footprint

Key Points

• Sandhya Devanathan leaves Meta after more than a decade to join OpenAI.
• She will be based in Singapore, reporting to OpenAI’s Asia‑Pacific managing director Kiran Mani.
• Devanathan’s remit includes consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement and operations in Southeast Asia and Australia.
• OpenAI has opened offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney and Delhi over the past two years.
• Prabhjeet Singh, former Uber executive, recently became OpenAI’s India head.
• Meta’s India VP role will be taken over by Arun Srinivas, who will report directly to Benjamin Joe.
• The move comes as Meta faces scrutiny in India over content‑moderation, a mistaken Instagram restriction on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s post, and concerns about child‑exploitation material.
• Meta says it removed 160,000 accounts in India in six months after detecting child‑exploitative activity.