Anna Roy is the Mission Director, Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) and the Principal Economic Advisor, NITI Aayog. She is from the Indian Economic Service. She has received her education from Shri Ram Collage of Commerce, Delhi University and Delhi School of Economics. She was a lecturer in Delhi University and TERI before joining IES. In the government she has worked in Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Civil Aviation and NITI Aayog. She has worked in important sectors like Infrastructure reforms, public private partnership, financial sector and banking sector. In NITI Aayog she heads the vertical dealing with data management and frontier technologies. In this role she has led teams which has brought out major reports like the National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain- the India Strategy, Approach Paper on AIRAWAT and a draft discussion paper on AI and Ethics. Ms Roy also heads the Women Entrepreneurship Platform, a NITI flagship that work towards developing the ecosystem.
