Akshay Yadava in his present role as Director ( States , Banks and Authentication) is working actively in Western Region with State Governments for enabling DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer) through Aadhaar Authentication for targeted delivery of benefits and services. He is closely involved with the Financial Sector (Regulators and BFSI Companies) for leveraging authentication (KYC) as a means for identity validation, customer onboardings and delivery of services. He has been instrumental in streamlining operations of the Aadhaar Enrolment and Update Ecosystem Pan India through Banks and has rationalised the operations in Mah and Goa as well. He has anchored specialised campaigns and drives for digitisation at field level beyond Tier 3 Cities through focussed campaigns like ALBR, PVTG and PM JANMAN. He is currently steering the implementation of Face Authentication by BFSI sector entities mapped to UIDAI at Mumbai/ Western Region. In addition, an area of focus has been to put in in place a structured framework for enabling compliances for prevention of Identity / Identity based Financial Frauds. An alumnus of Indian Institute Management, Kolkata who is a dynamic professional with crossdomain strategic perspective and 25 Years experience in various assignments with Government of India in MoD, MHA, MeITY and United Nations.