Samant Veer Kakkar

Samant Veer Kakkar is an instructor at United Nations System Staff College, Knowledge Centre for Sustainable Development in Bonn, Germany. He trains UN staff and key global stakeholders on topics related to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable and its SDGs. His focus areas include digital transformation, circular economy, multistakeholder partnerships and policy coherence for sustainable development.

Before he joined KCSD in 2017, he worked at the UNDP Headquarters in New York. Samant was an early member of the team that pioneered India’s Unique ID programme - Aadhaar, which is used as a platform for benefit transfers, service delivery and financial inclusion for more than a billion people. He remains keenly interested in the role technology plays in solving public policy challenges.

Samant started his career in Brussels as an advisor on EU law. Before joining the UN System, he served as the chief of staff to the Director-General of India’s leading Economic Policy think tank, NCAER. He holds an LL.M. in European Law from the University of Rouen in France and a Master’s in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University in New York.