Deepak Maheshwari has a keen research interest in the interplay of policy with technological innovations and socio-economic development, especially in the Digital Ecosystem. A thought leader and an oft-invited speaker, his views have been widely published and cited. He is a Senior Fellow at Centre For The Digital Future (CDF); a Senior Visiting Fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER); a Distinguished Fellow at Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) and Advisory Board Member at the Software Freedom Law Centre, India (sflc.in).
He has led public policy function in Symantec / NortonLifeLock; MasterCard; Microsoft and Sify over more than two decades with responsibilities spanning India, ASEAN and China.
He has served as Global Chair of the IEEE Internet Initiative; Secretary of the ISP Association of India; Chair of the BSA Asia-Pacific Policy Committee, Chair of the AMCHAM India Cyber Security Committee and on the Board of IIM Ahmedabad-Idea Telecom Center of Excellence. He was also a member of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Working Group on Cloud Computing, both constituted by the Government of India. A strong believer in the transformative power of public-private partnerships, he co-founded the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) and the ITU-APT Foundation of India.
A graduate in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, he also has a degree in law.
