Amar Gupta

Amar Gupta (born 1953) is a computer scientist, originally from India and now based in the United States.

Gupta is the former Dean of the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Pace University, USA. He is the Thomas R. Brown Professor of Management and Technology in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, USA. He is also a Professor of Computer Science in College of Science, Professor of Latin American Studies in College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Community, Environment and Policy in Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Professor at James E. Rogers College of Law, Member of the HOPE Center in College of Pharmacy, and the Director of Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Technology Initiative at the University of Arizona.

Gupta was born in 1953 in Nadiad, India and studied electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, graduating in 1974. He started his career at IBM, then served in various technical advisory roles for the Government of India before pursuing graduate studies with the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1979. In 1980, he received a master's degree in management from MIT, and a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He remained at Sloan until 2004, and was the first person to attain the rank of Senior Research Scientist at MIT Sloan. In this position, in cooperation with Professor Lester Thurow (former Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management), he launched the United States’ first course on international outsourcing.

He has served as an advisor to several UN organizations including World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), UNIDO, and the World Bank on various aspects of national policy and large-scale information management in the context of the needs of both individual agencies and member governments. He led a UNDP team to plan and implement a national financial information infrastructure in a Latin American country where 40 percent of the banks had gone bankrupt. Gupta was part of the expert group established by the WHO to formulate policy guidelines for health informatics. These guidelines were subsequently ratified as national guidelines by over 100 countries. He also served as an UNDP advisor on a $500 million nationwide effort to get computers into every school in Brazil, and as World Bank advisor on Distance Education endeavor to Mozambique. He secured approval for the proposal to establish two UN Centers of Excellence in Information Technology.

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