Meta India Announces Ex-Amazon Exec Aman Jain As New Public Policy Head

Meta India has hired Amazon’s public policy director, Aman Jain, as its senior director and country head for public policy.

In his new role, Jain will head Meta’s policy strategy and handle policy engagements in India, reporting to Simon Milner, Meta’s APAC vice president for policy.

Jain is expected to take charge early next year. Before him, the role was held by Shivnath Thukral, who moved to fintech firm PhonePe earlier this year.

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Jain brings more than 20 years of experience to Meta’s India leadership team. He most recently led public policy strategy at Amazon for over two years. Before that, he spent more than seven years at google and left the company in 2023 as its fintech industry head.

“India is a strategic market for Meta. As the country’s digital economy accelerates across areas such as AI, emerging tech and the creator economy, Meta aims to help build a more inclusive, trusted, and future-ready internet ecosystem for India,” Milner said.

This development comes at a time when rules around social media and AI are becoming increasingly important in India’s tech space.

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India is Meta’s largest market globally. According to Statista, as of October 2025, India had the biggest user base for both Facebook and Instagram, with over 403 million and 480.6 million users, respectively.

With smartphone and internet usage growing rapidly in the world’s most populous country, India’s importance to Meta is expected to increase further in the coming years.

Because of this, Meta has made several leadership changes in India recently. Before Jain’s appointment, the company promoted its ads business head Arun Srinivas to lead India operations in June. It also expanded the role of India VP Sandhya Devanathan to oversee all South Asia operations.

Along with leadership changes and a stronger focus on social media, Meta is also boosting its AI efforts in India. Most recently, it formed a joint venture with Reliance Industries to launch an AI-focused company, Reliance Enterprise Intelligence Limited (REIL), with an initial joint investment of INR 855 crore.

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