Arvind Gupta is the Head and Co-founder of Digital India Foundation, a policy think tank working in the areas of technology policy, digital inclusion, ethics of AI, supply-chain security, and governance of critical and emerging technologies. He is also an Adjunct Professor at IIT-BHU and has published many articles on the digital economy and governance in leading national newspapers of India, Harvard Business Review, and the World Economic Forum. He has been appointed as one of the board members of the Open Network of Digital Commerce (ONDC), an interoperable network under public-private ownership, to empower neighborhood stores to democratize the e-commerce landscape in India. In his previous role, he was the CEO of MyGov, a platform envisioned by PM Modi for digital inclusion through participative governance. He is also a member of the investment committee at the Small Industries Development Bank of India. He is a former board member of companies like Larsen and Toubro and ITC.
Mr. Gupta has almost three decades of industry experience in consumer internet, digital media, payment systems, analytics, and data economy, in senior leadership levels of policy and entrepreneurial profiles in India and Silicon Valley, USA. He has been on the Global FinTech Top100 list of Influencers and is 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 was awarded the Eisenhower Global Fellowship for Innovation in 2014 and the Distinguished Centenary Alumni Award from IIT-BHU. He is an active member of TiE, NASSCOM, and a founding member of iSPiRT, and has co-founded startups such as amplify.ai, ApnaPay, and Ideaswall.
He graduated with a degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT-BHU, Varanasi. He has a postgraduate degree in Computer Science and Business Administration (Finance & Marketing) from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He pursued an EFPM (DBA) from the Indian School of Business, with a thesis on “Trust-based ecosystem in digital public infrastructure with India’s UPI as a case study.
