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Ashishkumar Chauhanis an Indian business executive, administrator and current Chancellor ofUniversity of Allahabad. In July 2022, Chauhan is managing director and chief executive officer ofNational Stock Exchange(NSE).He was themanaging…
Krishnamurthy Venkata Subramanian(born May 5, 1971) is an Indian economist who served as the 17thChief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. Professor Subramanian is a leading expert on economic policy, banking and corporate governance, who…
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy(born 20 August 1946) is an Indianbillionairebusinessman. He is the founder ofInfosys, and has been the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief mentorof the company before retiring and taking the…
Srikant Dataris an Indian-American economist and the Dean ofHarvard Business School. At Harvard, he concurrently serves as the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration.In 2021, he was awarded thePadma Shri, the fourth-highest…
Pranab Mukherjee(11 December 1935– 31 August 2020) was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the 13thpresident of Indiafrom 2012 until 2017. In a political career spanning five decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader in theIndian National…
Rajagopala Chidambaram(born 11 November 1936) is anIndianPhysicistwho is known for his integral role inIndia's nuclear weapons program; he coordinated test preparation for thePokhran-I(1975) andPokhran-II(1998).
Previously served as the principal…
Indra Nooyi(néeKrishnamurthy; born October 28, 1955) is anIndian-Americanbusiness executive and former chairperson andchief executive officer(CEO) ofPepsiCo.She made $31 million in her final year at PepsiCo in 2017.
She has consistently ranked among…
Arundhati Bhattacharyais a retiredIndianbankerand formerChairperson of the State Bank of India.She is the first woman to be theChairperson of State Bank of India. In 2016, she was listed as the25th most powerful woman in the worldbyForbes.She is the…
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri(20 August 1940 – 13 February 2020) was the chairman of theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) from 2002 to 2015, during the fourth and fifth assessment cycles. Under his leadership the IPCC was awarded the Nobel…
Kapil Sibal(born 8 August 1948) is an Indian lawyer and politician. Sibal has represented several high-profile cases in theSupreme Court of Indiaand is widely regarded as one of the famous lawyers ofIndia.He is a Member of Parliament, in Rajya…
Meleveetil Damodaranis an Indian corporate advisor and mentor and a former senior government official. He is a Director on the Boards ofLarsen & Toubro,Hero MotoCorp,Tech Mahindra,CRISIL,BioconandExperian India.
He is the founder Chairperson of…
Dr. Sandeep Pandey(born 22 July 1965) is an Indian social activist and the present General Secretary of theSocialist Party (India).He co-foundedAsha for Educationwith Dr. Deepak Gupta (presently Professor atIIT Kanpur) and V.J.P Srivastava while…
Ajit Balakrishnanis an Indian entrepreneur, business executive and administrator. He is the founder, current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ofRediff.com, an internet company based inMumbai.He was Chairman of theBoard of GovernorsofIndian…
Balasubramanian Muthuraman(born 26 September 1944) was theVice ChairmanofTata Steel,India's largeststeelmanufacturer and chairmanTata International.
He has been awarded thePadma Bhushanby theIndian governmentin 2012.He studied metallurgical…
Naina Lal Kidwai(born 1957) is an Indian banker,chartered accountantand business executive.She was formerly a Group General Manager and the Country Head ofHSBCIndia.She is also a former President of theFederation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and…
Kundapur Vaman Kamathis the former chief of theNew Development BankofBRICScountries, previously he has also served as the Chairman ofInfosys Limited, the second-largestIndianIT services company, and as the Non-Executive Chairman ofICICI Bank, India's…
Arun Maira(born 15 August 1943) is a management consultant and former member ofPlanning Commission of India.He is also a former Chairman ofBoston Consulting Group, India
Arun Maira was part ofTata Administrative Servicesfor 25 years and held various…
Azim Hashim Premji(born 24 July 1945) is an Indian businessman, investor, engineer, and philanthropist, who was the chairman ofWipro Limited. Premji remains a non-executive member of the board and founder chairman. He is informally known as the Czar…
Tarun Dasis an Indian industrialist, corporate executive, writer and a former Chief Mentor of theConfederation of Indian Industry(CII). He servedCIIfrom 1967 to 2004 as its director general and from 2004 to 2009 as its chief mentor.
Das, who did his…
Abid Hussain(26 December 1926– 21 June 2012) was an Indian economist, civil servant and diplomat. He was India's ambassador to the United States of America from 1990 to 1992 and a member of thePlanning Commissionfrom 1985 to 1990.He was married to…
Krishna Chandra Pant(10 August 1931 – 15 November 2012) was an Indian Member of Parliament for 26 years and was the Prime Minister's interlocutor on Kashmir.He was a cabinet minister in theGovernment of Indiaand held several constitutional positions…
Pratap Kishen Kaul(3 July 1929– 2 March 2007) was anIndianCivil Servant and held several important and sensitive posts in the Government of India. He was from the 1951 batch of the Indian Administrative Service and served as the Cabinet Secretary,…
Raja Ramanna(28 January 1925– 24 September 2004) was anIndianphysicistwho is best known for his role inIndia's nuclear programduring its early stages.
Having joined thenuclear programin 1964, Ramanna worked underHomi Jehangir Bhabha, and later…
Lakshmi Kant Jha,MBE(22 November 1913 – 16 January 1988), born inDarbhanga district,Biharwas theeighth Governorof theReserve Bank of Indiafrom 1 July 1967 to 3 May 1970.Jha was a member of the 1936 batch of theIndian Civil Service. He was educated…
Bhairab Dutt Pandey(17 March 1917 – 4 April 2009)was a member of theIndian Civil ServiceandUnion Cabinet Secretaryof theGovernment of IndiaunderIndira Gandhi. He served as theGovernor of West Bengal(1981–1983), andPunjab(1983–1984), and…
Surajit Chandra Sinha(1 August 1926 – 27 February 2002) was an Indiananthropologist.Born inDurgapur Upazilain theBengal Presidency(now inBangladesh), he was the eldest son ofMaharajaBhupendra Chandra Sinha of Susang, who was a student ofPresidency…
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed(13 May 1905– 11 February 1977) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the 5thpresident of Indiafrom 1974 to 1977. He was the second Muslim President of India, and also the second President of India to die in…
Ravi John Matthai(1927–1984) was an educationist and a professor and the first full-time Director of theIndian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is also the co-founder, along with Dr. K. Varghese, ofInstitute of Rural Management, Anand.Ravi was…
Durga Prasad Dhar, commonly known asD. P. Dhar(1918–1975), was aKashmiripolitician and an Indian diplomat, who is a considered a chief architect of the Indian intervention in the 1971Bangladesh Liberation War.Dhar was a close adviser and confidant…
SaiyidNurul Hasan(26 December 1921 – 12 July 1993) was an Indian historian and an elder statesman in theGovernment of India. A member of the Rajya Sabha, he was the Union Minister of State (with Independent Charges) ofEducation,Social…
Vijayendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao(8 July 1908 – 25 July 1991) was an Indian economist, politician and educator. Rao was born in a Kannada speakingMadhwa Brahminfamilyon 8 July 1908 atKancheepuraminTamil Naduto Kasturirangachar and Bharati Amma.…
Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil(10 April 1901 – 3 May 1971), also known asD. R. Gadgil, was an Indian economist, institution builderand the vice-chairman of thePlanning Commission of India.He was the founder Director of theGokhale Institute of Politics…
Prof. Sher Singh (born:11 August 1917-death:5 September 2009) from villageBaghpur, TehsilBeri, DistrictJhajjar,Haryana. His father's name was Choudhary Sheesh Ram Kadian.
He was Deputy Chief Minister in Punjab in the fifties whenPratap Singh…
Manmohan Singh born 26 September 1932 is an Indian economist, academic and politician who was the 13thprime minister of Indiafrom 2004 to 2014. He is also the longest serving prime minister afterJawaharlal NehruandIndira Gandhi. Singh is amember of…
Sachin Chaudhury (24 February 1903 – 12 June 1992) was an Indian lawyer and politician who was Minister of Finance of the Government of India from 1965 to 13 March 1967, under Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi. He also was Director of several…
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