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FICCI
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) is a non-governmental trade association and advocacy group based in India. History Established in 1927, on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi by Indian businessman G.D. Birla and Purshottamdas Thakurdas. It is the largest, one of the oldest and the apex business organisation in India. It is a non-government, not-for-profit organisation. FICCI draws its membership from the corporate sector, both private and public, including SMEs and MNCs. The chamber has an indirect membership of over 250,000 companies from various regional chambers of commerce. It is involved in sector-specific business building, business promotion and networking. Currently, it is headquartered in the national capital New Delhi and has a presence in 12 states in India and 8 countries around the world. Allied Organisations Confederation of Indian Food Trade and Industry Confederation of Indian Food Trade and Industry (CIFTI) caters to the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Mitra
Dr. Amit Mitra is an Indian economist and politician and the current Special Advisor to Chief Minister of West Bengal on Finance. Previously he was the Finance, Commerce & Industries Minister of the government of Indian state of West Bengal. He was the incumbent MLA in the West Bengal state assembly from the Khardaha state assembly constituency. Cited as a giant killer in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election defeating Asim Dasgupta, the former West Bengal Finance Minister. Mitra previously served as the Secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Family Son of Haridas Mitra, a freedom fighter and former Deputy Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and Bela Mitra. His maternal grandfather was Suresh Chandra Bose, elder brother of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Both Suresh Chandra Bose and Haridas Mitra were part of the secret service team of Azad Hind Fauj. Bela Mitra took charge of the secret service of Azad H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajan Mittal
Rajan Bharti Mittal (born in 1960) is a first-generation Indian entrepreneur serving as vice chairman and managing director of Bharti Enterprises. Rajan graduated from Punjab University and completed his masters at Harvard Business School. Rajan Bharti Mittal, along with his brothers Sunil and Rakesh, set up Bharti Enterprises, an import business, in 1980. Rajan was honored with the "Indian Business Leader of the Year Award" in 2011 by Horasis. In the same year, he was also awarded the "Leonardo International Prize" by Comitato Leonardo. Rajan is on the Board of Trustees of Brookings Institution, President of ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) in India. In 2009–2010, he was the president of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) is a non-governmental trade association and advocacy group based in India. History Established in 1927, on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi by Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangita Reddy
Sangita Reddy is an Indian businessperson who works as a Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals. Career Sangita Reddy is Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprises and the president of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). She was elected as a Member of the Steering Committee on Health for the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017) by the Planning Commission, Government of India. She successfully spearheaded many of the sectoral and industrial initiatives of the FICCI's State Council from 2010 to 2016. She was formerly the chairperson for the FICCI Health Care Committee, New Delhi, and a member of the Rockfeller Working Group, where she was responsible for private healthcare development. She is board member of several organizations. Awards * IMA Mediko Award 2019 –Best Female Healthcare leader Family She is the youngest daughter of Prathap C. Reddy. She is married to Konda Vishweshwar Reddy Konda Vishweshwar Reddy (born 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwyn Didar Singh
Alwyn Didar Singh is a former Indian civil servant and former Secretary General of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He graduated from the University of Birmingham with a master's degree in development administration in 1996. In addition, he holds a PhD on the Policy and Administration of E-commerce from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He is an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Singh was appointed Secretary General of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in 2012 and served till August 2017. Singh was Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs from 2009 to 2011. He was Finance Member for the National Highways Authority of India from 2007 to 2009. He has served as Joint Secretary in the Government of India's Ministry of Heavy Industries and also worked in the Ministry of Commerce with responsibilities for foreign trade. He is currently the Advisor for Bridge India, a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naina Lal Kidwai
Naina Lal Kidwai (born 1957) is an Indian banker, chartered accountant and business executive. She was formerly a Group General Manager and the Country Head of HSBC India. She is also a former President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry ( FICCI). Career Education and early years Kidwai holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College for Women University of Delhi (1977 batch) and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1982. Kidwai was the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School and also the first woman to guide the functioning of a foreign bank in India. She is also a qualified chartered accountant. From 1982-1994 she worked ANZ Grindlays, where her assignments included Head of the Investment Bank, Head of Global NRI Services and Head of the Western India, Retail Bank. From 1994 to 2002, Kidwai served as the Head of Investment Banking in Morgan Stanley India and JM Morgan Stanley. She also served at Standard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uday Shankar (businessman)
Uday Shankar (born 16 September 1962) is an Indian media executive and former journalist. As of 2021, he was the President of The Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific, and chairman of Star India and The Walt Disney Company India. Early life Uday Shankar was born on 16 September 1962 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. His father was a civil engineer by profession and wanted to see his son as a civil servant. However, he chose a career of journalist, much to his father's disappointment. Shankar got his early education from his native place. He moved to Delhi to pursue his master's degree in Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He tried for the Civil Services Examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission ( UPSC) and passed the preliminary and main rounds too. But even though some of his friends were selected, Shankar could not clear the interview. In spite of trying for second time, Shankar got enrolled at Times School of Journalism in Delhi. Career Uday Shankar started his c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourth-most populous and thirteenth-largest state by area in India, as well as the eighth-most populous country subdivision of the world. As a part of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata, the third-largest metropolis, and seventh largest city by population in India. West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, the coastal Sundarbans and the Bay of Bengal. The state's main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with the Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority. The area's early history featured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divya Gokulnath
Divya Gokulnath is an Indian entrepreneur and educator who is the co-founder and director of Byju's, an educational technology company founded in 2012 in Bangalore, India. Early life and education Divya was born in Bengaluru. Her father is a nephrologist with Apollo Hospitals and her mother was a programming executive with the broadcasting company Doordarshan. She is an only child of her parents. As a child, her father taught her science. Divya completed her schooling at Frank Anthony Public School and pursued a Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology from RV College of Engineering in Bengaluru. After her graduation in 2007, she met Byju Raveendran, who was teaching her GRE exam prep course. Byju encouraged her to become a teacher due to her questions during breaks between the classes. Her career as a teacher began in 2008 at age 21. In 2020, she told '' Fortune India'', "It was an auditorium style class with 100 students. They were just a couple of years younger than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanjiv Mehta (Indian Businessman)
Sanjiv Mehta (born 1959/1960) is an Indian business executive, and the chairman and managing director (MD) of Hindustan Unilever Limited, India’s largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Company and the top five most valuable companies in the country. Mehta became the CEO and MD of Hindustan Unilever in October 2013, and in June 2018 was appointed as the chairman and MD. He also heads Unilever's business in South Asia, as cluster president encompassing businesses in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Mehta is a member of the Unilever Leadership Executive, its global executive board. Education Born in Kanpur, Mehta studied in Mumbai and Nagpur. He is a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and later completed the Advanced Management Programme from the Harvard Business School. Career He began his career in 1983 with Union Carbide. Early in his career, he was part of the crisis management team that worked on the Bhopal G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hari Shankar Singhania
Hari Shankar Singhania (20 June 1933 – 22 February 2013) was the President of J.K. Organisation, a leading Indian industrial group, which has its roots extending nearly 100 years, and is one of the largest industrial groups in India. It has multi-business, multi-product and multi-location operations. Most of the companies in the group are public limited entities, with more than 40,000 employees. The group has more than shareholders, with a nationwide sales and service network of over 10,000 distributors and many retailers and service centres. The group has export interests in nearly 90 countries across the globe. Mr. Singhania was the architect of most of the J.K. Organization group of companies which currently manufacture a large range of products including automotive tyres and tubes, paper and board, cement, V-belts, oil seals, power transmission equipment, woolen textiles, readymade suits and apparel, food and dairy products, hybrid seeds, steel engineering files, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purshottamdas Thakurdas
Sir Purshottamdas Thakurdas (1879–1961), , was a Gujarati cotton trader, mill owner, businessman and industrialist from Mumbai, India. He was one of the signatory of '' Bombay Plan'', which was set of proposals for the post-independence economy of India. He along with GD Birla established Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry in 1927 on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi. He was a member of the Hilton Young Commission The Hilton Young Commission (complete title: Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance) was a Commission of Inquiry appointed in 1926 to look into the possible closer union of the British territories in East and Central Africa. These were in ....He was a member of the Acworth Committee. He headed the Foodgrain Policy Committee of 1947. References Gujarati people Businesspeople from Mumbai Gujaratis from Mumbai Indian Knights Bachelor Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire Members of the Order of the British Empire Indian Knights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishna Kumar Birla
Krishna Kumar Birla (12 October, 1918 – 30 August, 2008) was an Indian industrialist of the Birla family. Biography Born at Pilani in the northwestern Indian state Rajasthan on 11 November 1918, Krishna Kumar Birla was the second son of Ghanshyam Das Birla. He had one older brother, Lakshmi Niwas Birla, who was the son of Ghanshyam Das Birla by his deceased first wife, Durga Devi Birla. Krishna Kumar was the elder of the two sons born to Ghanshyam Das Birla's second wife, Mahadevi Birla, the other son being Basant Kumar Birla, father of Aditya Vikram Birla. Krishna Kumar also had three sisters, all of whom were born to Mahadevi Birla. Birla's birthday coincided with the Hindu festival of Gopashtami, which is associated with the Hindu god Krishna and thus led to the selection of his name. Krishna Kumar's father, Ghanshyam Das Birla, was the founder of the Birla Group and he was one of India's richest businessmen. He was also a staunch follower of Mahatma Gandhi and a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
