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Aamer Azeemi is currently an independent Smart Cities Advisor. He has been appointed by the Govt. of AP to the expert Smart Infrastructure and ICT committee to oversee the Smart City plan and implementation for the AP Capital City Amaravati. He has also been appointed by the Govt. of Odisha as an Independent Director on the Board of the Bhubaneswar Smart City Ltd. He is also an advisor to several private sector organizations on their Smart Cities strategy.

Until February 2016, he served as a Managing Director with Cisco Systems in Bangalore for 7.5 years. He led Cisco Consulting Services for India. He has played an integral part in setting the ICT Master Plan strategy for various Smart Cities in Asia such as Incheon Free Economic Zone in South Korea, Iskandar in Malaysia, GGLC in Philippines, and four large Greenfield Smart Cities on the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) region in India.

Prior to this he was the Chief Information Officer at Omniyat Properties, Dubai. He played a vital role in helping Omniyat design their IT strategy for Real Estate.

Aamer Azeemi holds a Master of Science degree from Texas A&M University, Texas and a Bachelor of Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. After obtaining his MS degree he spent almost 11 years in the US working with IBM Global Services, SAIC and Freeborders. He later joined Wipro Technologies in Bangalore as the General Manager of Global IT Infrastructure.

His passion is to help build smart connected communities run on networked information providing integrated and comprehensive services to citizens wherever they live, work, learn or play.