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Co-founder of Infosys
About Nandan Nilekani
In 2009, standing in a dusty village in Rajasthan with a handheld biometric device, he oversaw the first Aadhaar enrollment, not as a technocrat issuing directives, but as a systems thinker testing whether identity could be both universal and frictionless. That moment crystallized his lifelong conviction: infrastructure must serve people before it serves policy or profit. Unlike peers who built offshore IT services for global clients, he spent a decade architecting India’s foundational digital public goods, UIDAI, DigiLocker, and the India Stack, treating interoperability, privacy-by-design, and inclusion as non-negotiable engineering constraints. His leadership at Infosys wasn’t defined by scaling services, but by institutionalizing governance rigor, ethical board practices, and long-term R&D investment in areas like AI ethics and rural digitization. He writes code in policy documents and debugs bureaucracy, always asking how technology can reduce asymmetry, not amplify it.
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