I work to shape digital rails and their enabling policies to drive economic shifts.

I trained in economics and public policy, but I spend most of my time on developing digital architectures — sitting with regulators, central banks, ministries and engineers to design digital ecosystems at national scale and then get them adopted.

India's Account Aggregator for open finance and Udyam for small business identity are two systems I helped drive into use via enabling regulation and digital upgrades. The same approach now travels: through the Centre for DPI, I help other countries craft their versions of data sharing rails.

What pulls me to this is poverty. I care about the people digital infrastructure is meant to serve, and I come at the work with high empathy for them. I'm also a bit of a technocrat — I like the architecture, the incentives and the numbers, because that's what makes the empathy count for something. The frontiers I'm focused on now are 1) Scaling models to quickly deploy DPI for foundational identities, inclusive payments, and high provenance data sharing (including VCs) to emerging economies around the world; and 2) shaping AI: how it sits inside public infrastructure, and what technology policy and regulation it needs.

I'm also curious about how nations using AI are building their own DPI rails — via MCP, sovereign AI access gateways, and beyond — to enable societies to leverage its capabilities to advance human development.