A N Roy (born on 15 May,1950) is a distinguished former civil servant, having served in the Indian Police Service in Maharashtra and Govt of India for over 38 years. He held a wide variety of assignments both in Maharashtra and under the Central government including Commissioner of Police, Aurangabad, Pune and Mumbai. He retired as Director General of Police, Maharashtra.

While in service, he headed the operations of the elite Special Protection Group, looking after the proximate security of the Prime Minister, former PMs and their families. Known popularly as the ‘People's Commissioner’, he set up many citizen-friendly schemes and systems to resolve and fulfil people's problems and expectations like Citizen Facilitation Centres, Mumbai Police Infoline, Elderline, Slum Police Panchayat etc.

He was appointed Advisor to the Governor of Andhra Pradesh when the state was under President's rule in 2014. In that capacity, he discharged the responsibilities as a Minister of many departments of the state like Home, Industry and Commerce, Housing, PWD, Health, Medical Education, Social Welfare. He also dealt with the separation of Andhra Pradesh into two states, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and supervised the General Elections of 2014 in both states.

Post-retirement, Roy is engaged in the social/non-profit sector. He runs a not-for-profit company, Vandana Foundation, to support the livelihoods of the poorest of poor in urban and rural areas.

He is on the Board of Directors of GSK India, Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance, Bajaj Housing Finance and Finolex Industries. He is on the India advisory boards of Encore Capital Group of USA and TrueNorth Private Equity Fund.