Composition of UIDAI Authority
Sh. Neelkanth Mishra, Chairperson (Part-time)
Neelkanth Mishra is Chief Economist, Axis Bank. He is also the Head of Global Research and a Whole Time Director of Axis Capital. He has been consistently rated the best analyst in India in investor polls over the years. A highly respected expert and media columnist on global and Indian macroeconomic trends, he joined Axis in May 2023 after a long and distinguished two-decade career at Credit Suisse, where he was Co-Head of Asia Pacific Strategy and the India Strategist. He is a part-time member of the Indian Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council as well as part-time Chairman of UIDAI (Aadhaar). He has also advised government bodies like the India Semiconductor Mission and the 15th Finance Commission. He is a member of the CII’s Economic Affairs Council, and a frequent presenter to corporate boards. He has also worked at HUL and Infosys. He is a gold-medalist and Distinguished Alumnus Awardee from IIT-Kanpur, and was ranked fourth in the entrance exam to the IITs.
Prof. Mausam, Member (Part-time)
Prof. Mausam is a Professor of Computer Science Department at IIT Delhi, and an affiliate faculty member at University of Washington, Seattle. He is the founding head of Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence, IIT Delhi. His research explores several threads in artificial intelligence, including scaling probabilistic planning algorithms, large-scale information extraction over the Web, and enabling complex computation over crowd sourced platforms.
Sh. Nilesh Shah, Member (Part-time)
Nilesh Shah is currently Managing Director of Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Company Limited. He is part time member of Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM). He has worked in Leadership positions with Axis Bank Group, ICICI Bank Group and Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund covering Investment Banking and Investment Management across Debt, Equity and Real Estate for Local and Global Investors over more than three decades. He is a Gold Medalist Chartered Accountant and a Merit ranked Cost Accountant.
Sh. Saurabh Vijay IAS (MH:98), CEO
Shri Saurabh Vijay, IAS (MH:1998) was Principal Secretary (Expenditure), Government of Maharashtra, prior to joining UIDAI.
His earlier assignments in the cadre include Principal Secretary Planning and Development Commissioner of Maharashtra, Principal Secretary Tourism, Secretary Medical Education, Secretary Higher and Technical Education, among others.
He has served on central deputation in significant national and international roles, including as Director at the President’s Secretariat in New Delhi, and Advisor to the Executive Director for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka at World Bank in Washington D.C.
