Parminder Jeet Singh

Parminder is Executive Director of IT for Change, an Indian NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN. Parminder was an advisor to the UN Global Alliance on ICTs for Development, and later to the UN Internet Governance Forum. He was a member of the UN’s Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum, and of the UN’s Working Group on international Internet-related policies. In 2015, during, he was invited to speak at the UN General Assembly. He was involved with development of UNCTAD’s inaugural Digital Economy Report in 2019. At India level, he has been involved with many committees and working groups of the government on digital issues; e.g. the Indian government’s committee that developed the first draft an e-commerce policy, and National Security Council’s committee on cyber-security. Parminder is currently a member of Government of India Committee on Data Governance Framework, and Confederation of Indian Industry’s Task Force on Cyber-security.