Akarsh Venkatasubramanian

Biography

Akarsh Venkatasubramanian is a biomedical engineer, parliamentarian advisor, technology diplomat and UN civil servant with 10 years of experience in digital governance and global health, with UN agencies, international orgs, govts and academia across Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. At the ILO, WHO, UNAIDS, UNITE and with the UNSG Envoy for Technology, he learnt to bridge and conduct negotiations between governments, industry actors, tech companies and UN interests on AI governance, technology diplomacy and digital health. He has a master’s in Global Health, specialized in AI Policy at MIT.