Nandan M. Nilekani co-founded Infosys, was its CEO during 2002-07, Board co-Chairman during 2007-09, and returned to Infosys in August 2017 as its Non-Executive Chairman. As the first Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India during 2009-2014, Nilekani successfully created and implemented Aadhar, the world’s largest biometric identification system. He is the Co-founder and Chairman of EkStep, a nonprofit initiative that is creating a learner-centric, technology-based platform to improve basic literacy and numeracy for millions of children.  Nilekani is the recipient of a number of national and international awards. Fortune Magazine conferred on him “Asia’s Businessman of the year 2003” award. He received the prestigious Joseph A Schumpeter Prize in 2005 for Innovative Services in Economy, Economic Sciences and Politics. In 2006, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India. He was also named the 2006 Businessman of the Year by Forbes Asia. Time magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 and 2009. Foreign Policy listed Nilekani as one of the Top 100 Global thinkers in 2010.  He won The Economist magazine’s Social & Economic Innovation Award 2014 for his leadership of Aadhaar.  In 2017, CNBC-TV 18 conferred on him their India Business Leader award for outstanding contributions to the Indian economy, and he received the 22^nd Nikkei Asia Prize for Economic & Business Innovation.  Nilekani is the author of “Imagining India” and  the co- author with Viral Shah of his second book, “Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations”