Nobel winning economist Paul Romer backed Aadhaar in 2017
Paul Michael Romer, who jointly won the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics said in 2017 that India's Aadhaar biometric database was the "most sophisticated" that he'd ever seen. Romer, who was World Bank Chief Economist at that time, also said the government should give some control to individuals as to how the data is being used by private companies.