Wikipedia:Dr. Omkar Rai

Omkar Rai is  current Director General of STPI, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India and Chairman, AIC STPINext.

Education
He has a Ph.D. in statistics from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

Career
He is currently serving as the Director General of STPI. Before STPI, he served in National Informatics Centre in various capacities and as Development Commissioner Information Technology Enabled Service, Special economic zone.

Professional work
In 2017, he envisaged 10% IT export growth by Indian Infotech industry and has formulated National IT Policy 2012.

Dr. Rai formulated an incubation program for IT/ESDM sector to promote entrepreneurship, innovation, and product creation in the country. He worked for dispersing the tech industry to Tier II and Tier III in India. Rai has covered India's start-up growth stories in his write-ups and piloted policy initiatives as part of MeitY Startup hub which acts as a central agency for tech incubation centers to promote innovation, product development, and IP creation. He envisioned setting up 21 Centres of Excellence in emerging technology across India to provide proper handholding to the startup ecosystem for building indigenous products and IPR creation.

Recognition
Rai was ranked top as global IT influencer under Internet of things category by Twitter in November, 2020. Distinguished alumnus Award by Banaras Hindu University in 2020 was conferred to him for his contribution in enabling start-ups and innovation in Information technology / Information Technology Enabled Service sector and formulation / implementation of Information and communications technology applications across domains. Rai is credited to bridge the gap between academia and industry and formulated an interface among industry, academia and IT/ESDM sector.

Membership And Positions held
Rai has held positions in promoting and encouraging innovation-led tech entrepreneurship programmes and in building an ecosystem to facilitate incubation, mentoring, R&D, industry-connect and funding.


 * Member - Advisory group for the Electronics and IT Department, Government of Odisha
 * Member IT Advisory Committee DIT, Government of Goa
 * Member Governing Body of School of Open Learning, Delhi University
 * Member - Board of Governors (BoG) - International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar
 * Director -National Internet Exchange of India & Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Limited
 * Director on the Board of Directors of MTNL-STPI IT Services Limited