Composition of UIDAI Authority

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 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.

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.

Bhuvnesh Kumar joined Unique Identification Authority of India in January 2025 and is currently serving as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Unique Identification Authority of India.

He is from the 1995 batch of Indian Administrative Service from the Uttar Pradesh Cadre.  As a career bureaucrat he has served in various positions in the State of Uttar Pradesh at the Government and District Administration levels.

His earlier assignments include Additional Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Principal Secretary / Secretary in the departments of Finance, Skill Development, Technical Education, MSME, Sports & Youth Welfare, Animal Husbandry, Dairy & Fisheries Development and Planning & Programme Implementation.

Prior to joining the IAS, he was in the Indian Telecommunication Service and was involved with setting up of Rural Automatic Exchange.  He also taught as a Faculty in the Engineering Institute of Government of Haryana.

He started his career as a Computer Engineer with erstwhile CMC Limited, a PSU under the then Department of Electronics (now MeitY).

By qualification, he is an Electronics and Communications Engineer from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra and graduated in the year 1989.