Chintan Vaishnav
Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), Govt. of India and MIT
Mission Director
Dr. Chintan Vaishnav is a socio-technologist, an engineer trained to design and build large-scale
systems that possess both human as well as technological complexities. Presently, he serves
as the Mission Director for Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), a flagship initiative of the government
of India under the auspices of the NITI Aayog. Chintan is on leave from Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) for his present assignment. As a teacher, innovator, and entrepreneur, he
has split his time between teaching and research at MIT and living and working with rural
communities in India to build solutions that can overcome constraints fundamental to improving
human conditions.