Wharton Grad Set to Take on Big Tech as New India Minister
- Modi names Vaishnaw as the new minister for IT, communications
- He had previously worked in civil service, private sector
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India has named a former bureaucrat who graduated from the country’s top engineering school its new Information Technology minister, appointing a new point person to handle an increasingly fractious relationship with the world’s largest technology giants.
Ashwini Vaishnaw, 51, will head the ministries of Electronics & Information Technology, Communications as well as Railways, the government announced late on Tuesday evening. The incoming minister has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Indian Institute of Technology, which counts tech leaders like Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai as alumni.