Alan Gemmell OBE FRSA (born 6 April 1978) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and diplomat, who has served as the member of parliament (MP) for Central Ayrshire since 2024.

[15] Gemmell secure a partnership with the state of Andhra Pradesh and its chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, to train 100,000 college students.

[16] Gemmell signed an agreement witnessesd by Hon'ble Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to support English teaching across the state and improve the skills of young people in Odisha.

[18] Gemmell signed an agreement with the state of Arunachal Pradesh in the presence of Hon'ble Chief Minister Pema Khandu at the Tawang Festival in October 2018 to develop cultural and educational programmes.

[23] The programme for the year was announced by British Council Deputy Chair Rt Hon Baroness Prashar CBE PC, UK Minister of State for Digital and Culture Rt Hon Matt Hancock and Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom HE Mr Sinha at the British Film Institute on 28 February 2017.

[24] The programme includes an exhibition from the British Museum and The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbai,[25] the first exhibition on Indian innovation at the UK's Science Museum, London,[26] and the restoration of 1928 Indian movie, Shiraz, by the British Film Institute with a new score by British-Indian musician Anoushka Shankar.

[28][29] Gemmell commissioned Mix the City in 2015 working with UK tech start-ups Flying Object and Roll Studio, the BBC and the Arts Council of England.

[31][32] Gemmell launched Mix the City Mumbai[33] in partnership with Rolling Stone India[31] at a Music Expo hosted by the UK Government's Department of International Trade on 31 March 2017.

[35] In November 2016 Gemmell launched Mix the Play,[36] an interactive digital theatre collaboration with Indian director Roysten Abel, during the visit of British prime minister Theresa May to India.

[37] Mix the Play allows users to direct Adil Hussain Kalki Koechlin, Kriti Pant and Tushar Pandey in the balcony scene of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

In October 2017 Gemmell launched Mix the Body,[40] an interactive dance platform with British choreographer Wayne McGregor.

[60] He secured a reduction on Scotch whisky duty in the state of Maharashtra,[61] and co-chaired the UK's second trade policy dialogue with Bangladesh.

[62] As deputy high commissioner, Gemmell initiated a joint mission to progress of the trial of a murdered British-Irish citizen in Goa.

[70] In November 2024, Gemmell voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which proposes to legalise assisted suicide.

[78] In November 2024 Gemmell received an Honorary Doctorate from the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha in recognition of the investment and jobs created during his time as British Trade Commissioner and his work to strengthen UK-India relationship.