CEO, NITI Aayog

Shri Anurag Jain is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer of the 1989 batch of the Madhya Pradesh Cadre. He assumed charge as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NITI Aayog on 17.08.2026.

Prior to this, he served as Chief Secretary, Government of Madhya Pradesh; Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH), with additional charge of Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA); and Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). During his tenure at DPIIT, he led the transformational PM Gati Shakti-National Master Plan, which received the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration in April 2023.

He also served as Vice Chairman, Delhi Development Authority (DDA), at the level of Additional Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, as well as Joint Secretary to the Prime Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for three and a half years.

He has extensive experience in Finance, Information Technology, District Administration and Rural Development. His other important assignments include serving as Secretary to the Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh, for five and a half years; and heading the Finance Department of the Government of Madhya Pradesh as Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary (Finance) for two years.

As Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, he is credited with conceptualising and implementing one of the most successful initiatives, ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana’, the world’s largest and most successful financial inclusion programme.

As Secretary to the Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh, he was the prime mover behind the enactment of the Public Service Delivery Management Act, an innovative initiative subsequently adopted by more than a dozen States in the country.

As Secretary, Information Technology, Government of Madhya Pradesh, he was instrumental in taking the State to top rungs in e-Readiness Assessment of States and Union Report.