Saurabh Vijay appointed CEO of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)

Key facts

• Saurabh Vijay has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the UIDAI.
• He is a 1998-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Maharashtra cadre.
• Vijay is a civil engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.
• He previously served as the Principal Secretary in the Finance Department for the state of Maharashtra.
• He has served as the Director at the President’s Secretariat and as an Advisor to the Executive Director for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka at the World Bank.