Apar Gupta

Indian lawyer, Ashoka Fellow (2019), and one of the eight co-founders of the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) when it launched on 15 August 2016 as a follow-on to the SaveTheInternet.in net-neutrality campaign. Gupta served as IFF's Executive Director from April 2018, when the organisation became a staffed body, through 2023, sits on the Board of Trustees constituted under IFF's August 2022 by-laws, and returned to lead the organisation as Founder Director from November 2024.

Born and raised in New Delhi, Gupta holds a B.A. LLB (Hons) from Amity Law School and a postgraduate law degree from Columbia Law School. Before IFF he practised as a commercial litigator at Karanjawala & Co. and then ran Accendo Law Partners (merged with Advani & Co. in 2010) until he resigned from private practice in 2015 to set up an independent chamber; he was named to the Forbes India 30 Under 30 list in 2014 and has published the LexisNexis Commentary on the Information Technology Act.

At IFF, Gupta is the principal author of the organisation's submissions on the NITI Aayog National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence ("#AIforAll") and the 2025 Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology AI Governance Guidelines under the IndiaAI Mission, and the named lead on its strategic-litigation portfolio — including Internet Freedom Foundation v. Union of India (2019, challenging the Telegraph Act and IT Act electronic-surveillance frameworks), Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (the Jammu and Kashmir internet-shutdowns case), the Telangana High Court challenge to Hyderabad police facial recognition, the Aarogya Setu mandatory-installation petition in the Kerala High Court, and the Section 66A "zombie cases" track. He was counsel of record in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India on Section 66A and in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India on the constitutional right to privacy and Aadhaar.