Ashwini Vaishnaw

Ashwini Vaishnaw
Vaishnaw in 2021
Minister of Railways
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 July 2021
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Piyush Goyal
Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 July 2021
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Ravi Shankar Prasad
Minister of Communications
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 July 2021
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Ravi Shankar Prasad
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 June 2019
Constituency	Odisha
Deputy Secretary, Prime Minister's Office
In office 2003-2004
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Personal details
Born	(1970-07-18) 18 July 1970 (age 53) Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party (since 2019)
Spouse	Sunita Vaishnaw ​ (m. 1995)​ [1]
Children	2
Parents	Dau Lal Vaishnaw (father) Saraswati Vaishnaw (mother)
Education	B.E, M.Tech., MBA
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania IIT Kanpur M.B.M. Engineering College,[2] Jai Narain Vyas University
Occupation	Former IAS officer, Entrepreneur Former Managing Director, GE Transportation Former Vice President, Siemens
Website	www.ashwinivaishnaw.in
Source: rajyasabha.nic.in

Ashwini Vaishnaw (born 18 July 1970) is an Indian politician and former IAS officer who is currently serving as the 39th Minister of Railways, 55th Communications Minister and 2nd Electronics & Information Technology Minister in Government of India since 2021 and a member of the Rajya Sabha representing Odisha since 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Earlier in 1994, Vaishnaw joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in the Odisha cadre, and has worked in Odisha.^[3]