Panjab University alumnus Amandeep Singh Gill appointed as UN chief's Envoy on Technology

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Category : International Published on: June 14 2022

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed senior Indian diplomat Amandeep Singh Gill as his envoy on technology to coordinate programmes for international digital cooperation.
Amandeep Singh Gill has been India's permanent representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from 2016-to 2018.
Previously, Gill was the Executive Director and Co-Lead of the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation (2018-2019).
He was also a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

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Panjab University alumnus Amandeep Singh Gill appointed as UN chief's Envoy on Technology