CHINTAN VAISHNAV

April 7, 2021

Noted socio-technologist Dr Chintan Vaishnav has been appointed the mission director of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), the government’s flagship initiative under NITI Aayog.

About:

  • Vaishnav will take over from Ramanathan Ramanan later this month. Ramanan has been leading AIM as its first mission director since June 2017.

  • Vaishnav is currently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US. He holds a PhD in technology, management, and policy from MIT.

  • Vaishnav is an engineer trained to understand and build large-scale systems, with both human as well as technological complexities.

Source : LiveMint