Dr. Arvind Gupta is a nationally recognised digital policy leader and technologist with nearly three decades of experience spanning technology, public policy, governance, and venture capital oversight.

He is the Head and Co-founder of the Digital India Foundation, a policy think tank working at the intersection of technology policy, digital public infrastructure, and responsible AI, and has played a pivotal role in shaping India’s digital transformation agenda. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, and Ashoka University.

Dr. Arvind Gupta has recently been appointed as a Trustee on the Board of National Pension Trust of India. He is a member of the Investment Committee of the National Fund of Funds Scheme, nominated by the DPIIT, Government of India, and managed by SIDBI. He also serves on the Advisory Council of the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) and is a Non-Executive Board Member at Acuite Ratings and Research Limited. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer of MyGov.in, the Government of India’s flagship platform for participatory digital governance.

His professional experience spans consumer internet, digital media, payment systems, analytics, enterprise software, and the data economy, across both policy and entrepreneurial contexts in India and Silicon Valley. He has served on the boards of organisations including Larsen & Toubro, the State Trading Corporation of India, and the Digital India Corporation. His work has received global recognition, including membership in the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Digital Economy and Society, and selection as an OECD expert on Global Value Chains.

He also serves on the advisory boards of the ICRIER–Prosus Centre for Internet and Digital Economy, is a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Expert Member at the INSA Centre for Science and Technology Policy. He is a founding member of iSPIRT and has co-founded startups such as e-enable, amplify.ai, and apnaPay, among others.

Dr. Gupta has published extensively on the digital economy and governance in leading national newspapers, as well as platforms such as the Harvard Business Review and the World Economic Forum.

Dr. Gupta is a recipient of the the Distinguished Eisenhower Global Fellowship for Innovation , Centenary Alumni Award from IIT-BHU Alumni Award from Banaras Hindu University , and the . He was awarded the “ Distinguished Ecosystem Enabler of the Year ” by the IVCA in 2024.

He holds an undergraduate degree in from IIT-BHU , a Electronics and Communication Engineering Master’s in Computer Science Administration from the and a Master’s in Business University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an EFPM (DBA) from the Indian School of Business . USA, and His doctoral research examined trust-based ecosystems in Digital Public Infrastructure, a case study.