Sandeep Dikshit was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of IndiaHe represented the East Delhi constituency of Delhi and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He was born to Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Vinod Dikshit, an IAS officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre Sandeep Dikshit, before entering active politics, headed a social development group SANKET which pioneered the first sub-national Human Development Report in the world in 1996. Sandeep has worked on rural development and human development issues for the last 15 years in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Sandeep Dikshit represented the East Delhi Parliamentary constituency in the 15th Lok Sabha.
He is currently an Adjunct faculty at OP Jindal Global University, Sonepat and teaches Human Development and public policy in the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy.