Sumnesh Joshi

Deputy Director General, Unique Identification Authority of India

"Mr Sumnesh Joshi is the Deputy Director General of Unique Identification Authority of India, heading the Western Regional Office at Mumbai. He has joined as a first officer at UIDAI Regional Office Mumbai in April 2010 as a part of the founding team under leadership of Mr Nandan Nilekani. He was instrumental to roll out the implementation of biometric based Digital Identity “Aadhaar” project in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu. He has been working with the Aadhaar Eco System Partners like State Governments, Regulators, Banks, Insurance Companies and Fintech Companies and guiding them in designing the solutions for the convenient delivery of various services using “Aadhaar”. He is driving the use of Aadhaar -a Digital Identity Platform in E-Governance for Targeted Delivery of Services and Benefits. He also headed Enrolment & Update vertical of UIDAI PAN India. He was in various committees to look into the Strengthening of Aadhaar Enrolment Processes, Revisiting the regulations and SoPs, Automation of various Processes and Universal Client for Enrolment & Update. Mr Joshi is an officer of 1993 Batch of Indian Telecom Service of Government of India and has over 25 years of experience at different levels of Government. Prior to UIDAI he worked with Department of Telecommunications, Government of India and was involved in Telecom Traffic Planning , Data Analytics, Project implementation, Marketing of Services, Market Strategies, Market Intelligence, Product Development and Brand building. Mr Joshi, an Electronics & Communications Engineer, holds MicroMasters in Data Economics and Development Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He has a Certificate in Public Policy from University of California Berkeley and MBA from the Management Development Institute Gurgaon, India.