Nandan Nilekani is a technology entrepreneur and public policy architect who co-founded Infosys Technologies Limited and led the creation of India's national biometric identity system. Nandan Nilekani's Twitter Score is 33 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #28,653 (top 10%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Nandan Nilekani co-founded Infosys Technologies Limited, where he serves as Chairman of the Board, and previously served as the Founding Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the body responsible for building the Aadhaar biometric identity infrastructure. Beyond Aadhaar, he has been closely associated with India's broader digital public infrastructure stack, including UPI, ONDC, and the Account Aggregator framework. He also co-founded the EkStep Foundation, where he serves as Chairman, and co-founded Fundamentum Partnership, a growth-stage investment vehicle. Fundamentum's third fund targets a corpus of Rs 2,200 crore, with Nandan Nilekani serving as an anchor limited partner.
Nandan Nilekani serves as a Director at Avanti Finance Private Limited and at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, and co-chairs the G20 Task Force on Digital Public Infrastructure for Economic Transformation, Financial Inclusion, and Development. He is affiliated with the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) Advisory Council and with the Beckn Protocol, a decentralized digital commerce network developed in partnership with iSPIRT. His current focus includes Finternet, a digital public infrastructure platform built on tokenization technology and targeting capital markets, which is expected to go live in 2026.
Nandan Nilekani has authored and co-authored several books on technology and India's development trajectory, including works published under the handles @ImaginingIndia, @RebootingIndia, and @bitfulness. His account has accumulated 2,606,923 followers as of September 2026 and 3,104 posts, and has been mentioned by 115 accounts a total of 290 times.
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