Analjit Singh (born 11 January 1954) is the founder

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Max Group Max Group is an Indian Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in New Delhi, operating in the fields of life insurance, real estate and independent senior living. It was founded in 1985 by Analjit Singh. Max Group companies include ...

, a conglomerate with interests in life insurance, healthcare, and real estate. He is also the founder of Leeu Collection, an international collection of boutique hotels. He was also the Non-Executive Chairman of

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Early life and education

Analjit Singh was born in

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, the son of Bhai Mohan Singh and Avtar Kaur. His father was the founder of Ranbaxy Laboratories. Singh was the youngest of three sons. Singh spent his formative years in

The Doon School The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a Selective school, selective all-boys Private school, private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer ...

. He then studied

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Shri Ram College of Commerce Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) is an Indian higher education institution in the fields of commerce, economics and business management. A constituent college of the University of Delhi, it was founded in 1926 by seven leading businessmen na ...

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. before going for his MBA at

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Career

Singh served as the

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India from February 2012 to August 2018. He has been the key spokesperson of Vodafone in India and was the main representative of the company during the Vodafone's retrospective taxation controversy with the

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. Singh is founder of Leeu Collection, an international collection of boutique Hotels in

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and

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. Singh serves on the Founder Executive Board of

Indian School of Business The Indian School of Business (ISB) is a private business school with campuses in Hyderabad and Mohali, India. It offers various post-graduate management programs. History The Indian School of Business (ISB) was started in 1996 by a bunch of b ...

. He is the patron of Max Institute of Healthcare Management, one of the partner institutes at the ISB's Mohali campus. He served as Chairman of Mohali Campus Advisory Board of ISB. He is on the board of Sofina SA, a Belgian holding company, headquartered in

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which invests in several industrial sectors. He served on the board of Tata Global Beverages and resigned in December 2016. He had voted against the resolution moved for

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's ouster as Chairman of the company. In his resignation letter he said that he lamented at the overall lack of transparency surrounding the sacking of

. He served as the Chairman of

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(IIT)-Roorkee, from 2011 to 2014. He serves on the Prime Minister's UK-India CEO Forum, where he is the co-chair of Ease of Doing Business Committee along with Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of

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. He has also served as a member of Prime Minister's Indo-US CEO Forum. He has served as Chairman of

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's (CII) national committee on insurance and pensions.

Diplomatic associations

Singh serves as the Honorary Consul General of

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in India from November 2007. He also served as the co-chair of Prabodhan, a forum for facilitating engagement between prominent European and Indian.

Honours and awards

* In 2011, he was awarded the

Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan (IAST: ''Padma Bhūṣaṇa'', lit. 'Lotus Decoration') is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 Januar ...

, the third-highest civilian award in the country.

Personal life

Singh has three children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Analjit Boston University School of Management alumni Indian Sikhs Businesspeople from Delhi Living people 1954 births The Doon School alumni Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in trade and industry Indian businesspeople in the healthcare industry Shri Ram College of Commerce alumni