H.E. Dr. Amandeep Gill

Biography

Amandeep Singh Gill is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies, a post he has held since 1 January 2025, leading the UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies. From 2022 to 2024 he served as the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology.

A former member of the Indian Foreign Service, which he joined in 1992, he was India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from 2016 to 2018 and earlier headed the Disarmament and International Security Affairs Division in New Delhi. From 2018 to 2019 he was Executive Director of the Secretariat of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation. He has served on the Secretary-General’s High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and electrical communications from Panjab University and a PhD from King’s College London.