Suresh Yadav is Senior Director (Trade, Ocean and Natural Resources) as well as lead on AI and Digital Transformation in the Commonwealth. He is the Secretary of the Commonwealth AI consortium and working to promote development of AI and capacity building in the Commonwealth countries. Prior to this he had worked in the Board of World Bank Group as representative of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. As a member of IRS in India, he had worked as an Officer on Special Duty to President of India and Director to Finance Minister of India. He also led the DTAA negotiations on behalf of India and global specialist in transfer pricing audit of MNEs. He is an author of a Book on FDI and passionately work for using AI and transformative technologies for development and also to use the platform approach for attracting FDI by the small states. He is working to bridge the compute and digital divide in the Commonwealth countries.