Ashwini Vaishnaw: From Wharton alumnus to Indian Cabinet Minister


Until a couple of days ago, his was a little-known name. However, the Indian government’s ambitious Cabinet rejig has shot Ashwini Vaishnaw to the limelight. But he is not your typical politician; an IIT-Kanpur and Wharton Business School alumnus, Vaishnaw is a technocrat who managed to impress the ruling party’s top brass with his varied and vast experience. First as an IAS officer, then corporate honcho, and finally as an entrepreneur before he joined politics in 2019. Unafraid to evolve with time, Vaishnaw has portrayed each of his roles with elan. And now the 51-year-old former bureaucrat is all set to take charge as Minister of Railways, Minister of Communications, and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology. 

His transformation as a politician is not without its sartorially comic moments. In an interview with Business Standard, he said,  

“I kept coming to Parliament in shirt and trousers, till the watch and ward staff accosted me asking if I was the private secretary to any MP. I showed them my identity card but from the next day changed to kurta pyjama.” 

From Jodhpur to Wharton to the Cabinet  

Born in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur Vaishnaw secured a gold medal in BE (electronics and telecommunication) from the University of Jodhpur. Vaishnaw then did his M.Tech in industrial management from IIT-Kanpur before clearing the UPSC exam with an All-India Rank of 27 in 1994. His first posting was in Cuttack and over a span of 15 years he worked in various regions including Balasore and Sundargarh. In 2004, he was appointed as Deputy Secretary to former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s office where he worked on the public-private partnership model of developing infrastructure.  Read More


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