Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani is the first Indian to receive this prestigious award from Yale University.

Yale University felicitated the chairman of India’s Unique Identification Database Authority and Infosys’ co-founder Nandan Nilekani with the ‘Legend in Leadership Award’. Nilekani is the first Indian to receive this award.

The ‘Legend in Leadership Award’ was created 20 years ago to honour current and former CEOs who serve as living legends to inspire chief executives across industries, sectors and nations.

The award was presented to Nilekani by Richard C. Levin, president, Yale University, at the Yale CEO Leadership Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute. The summit convened 100 business leaders in New Delhi, to discuss the theme of ‘Navigating the Global Oceans of Opportunity for Indian Business’.

Nilekani, who co-founded Infosys in 1981 and served as CEO from 2002 to 2007, holds the rank of cabinet minister as the first chairman of the Indian government’s newly created ‘Unique Identification Database Authority’. The universal ID card is expected to help ensure that most of the billions of dollars India and other organisations spend on aid reach the people for whom it was intended.

In 2006, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, one of the highest civilian honours awarded by the Government of India.

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