UN chief appoints Amandeep Singh Gill as Envoy on Technology
United Nations Secretary General Amotino Guterres on Friday appointed senior Indian diplomat Amandeep Singh Gill as his Envoy on Technology. The UN described him as a "thought leader on digital technology" in an announcement of his appointment on its website. Gill was India's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from 2016-to 2018. He is CEO of the International Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) project, based at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.