Innovation Evangelist, Technology Entrepreneur, and Policy Advisor.
Dr. Arvind Gupta
Head and Co-FounderArvind Gupta is the Head and Co-Founder of Digital India Foundation, a policy think tank working in areas of Digital Inclusion, Smart Cities, Internet Governance, Data Privacy and Cyber Security, and Electronics Manufacturing. He is an Adjunct Professor at IIT-BHU, teaching “Data and Digital Economy”.
He has over 27 years of industry experience, having worked in diverse sectors in a variety of leadership, policy, and entrepreneurial profiles in India and Silicon Valley, USA. He has considerable experience in Consumer Internet, Digital Media, Payment Systems, Analytics, and Data Economy. He has been on the Global FinTech top list of Influencers and is also a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Digital Economy & Society and an OECD Expert Member of Global Value Chains. He has been awarded the Eisenhower Global Fellowship for Innovation for the year 2014.
He has been awarded the Dataquest Pathbreaker of the Year award and the Distinguished Centenary Alumni award from IIT-BHU.
In his last role, he was the CEO of MyGov, an initiative of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, to Empower the Citizens of India with Participative Governance and Digitally communicate Schemes and Policies to all Indians.
He led the Digital, Social Media, and Communication Campaign for PM Narendra Modi, which resulted in PM Modi creating electoral history and achieving its Mission 272+ in the 2014 Elections.
He is a Member of the Founder’s Circle of Spirit, which has worked extensively on the “IndiaStack”. He is one of the thought leaders in implementing DBT throughout India. He is an active member of TiE, NASSCOM, and a Founder Member of iSPiRT. He also co-founded startups such as amplify.ai, ApnaPay, and Ideaswall amongst others. Mr. Gupta is also a frequent speaker at various industry and Global forums. He is visiting faculty at IIT, Management Schools, and Innovation Forums and has published many articles on #DigitalEconomy, Value of Data, #GovTech in leading papers of India, Harvard Business Review, and World Economic Forum.
Mr. Gupta graduated with a degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT-BHU, Varanasi. He has a Master’s in Computer Science and an MBA (Finance & Marketing) from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
