Pranav Dwivedi

Biography

Pranav Dwivedi is a government and deep-tech policy consultant working at the intersection of AI governance, startup ecosystem development, and public-delivery systems in India. He advises Ministry of Electronocs and IT, Govt of India on startup, Global Capability Centre, and deep-tech policy, and has previously served as policy advisor to the Uttar Pradesh Minister of Food & Civil Supplies, leading the Direct Benefit Transfer rollout for a public distribution system serving approximately 140 million citizens across 80,000+ fair-price shops. Under StartinUP UP, he helped grow Uttar Pradesh’s state-recognized startup incubator network from 12 to 56 in a single year, and has since mentored over 50 founders across Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, deliberately outside India’s metro startup circuit. He led India’s first deepfake-detection workshop for police, in Shrawasti, Uttar Pradesh, and founded Inclusive AI, a nonprofit running AI-skilling programs for women and MSMEs. He is an angel investor with over 20 investments. His work focuses on translating emerging-technology policy into implementable, large-scale public systems.