Google’s head of public coverage for India has resigned simply 5 months after taking the job, two sources instructed Reuters, at a doubtlessly essential time for the U.S. tech big because it awaits the end result of a minimum of two antitrust circumstances within the nation.
The explanations for Archana Gulati’s resignation weren’t instantly clear.
Gulati, who beforehand labored at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s federal think-tank, declined to remark. A spokesperson for Alphabet Inc’s Google additionally declined to remark.
Google is going through a collection of antitrust circumstances in India and stricter tech-sector rules.
India’s competitors watchdog is wanting into Google’s enterprise conduct within the good TVs market, its Android working system, in addition to its in-app funds system.
The watchdog is near asserting its choice in a minimum of two antitrust circumstances towards Google, individuals acquainted with the method stated.
At Google, Gulati led a crew of public coverage executives who have a look at numerous regulatory implications for the corporate in India, certainly one of its key development markets.
She was a long-time Indian authorities worker, having labored till March 2021 as a joint secretary for digital communications at Modi’s federal assume tank, Niti Aayog, a physique that’s essential to authorities’s coverage making throughout sectors.
Earlier than that, between 2014 and 2016, she labored as a senior official on the Competitors Fee of India, in its Mergers & Acquisitions division, based on her LinkedIn profile.
A lot of Indian authorities officers have been employed by Large Tech firms as they face tighter information and privateness regulation, in addition to competitors legislation scrutiny, below Modi’s federal authorities.