Pavan Choudary (born 29 August 1965) is an Indian writer, TV talk-show host, TEDx speaker, and CEO. He has written several books including ''How a Good Person can Really Win (Earlier version- When you are sinking become a submarine- Winning Through Wisdom and Creativity)'', ''Machiavelli for Moral People'', ''Broom and Groom'' (co-author

Kiran Bedi Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is an Indian social activist, former-tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 2 ...

) and ''The Rx Factor''. Choudary also hosts the TV show ''Hum Aisey Kyun Hain'' on

Doordarshan Doordarshan (abbreviated as DD; Hindi: , ) is an Indian public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and one of Prasar Bharati's two divisions. One of India's largest bro ...

and has written columns for

The Times of India ''The Times of India'', also known by its abbreviation ''TOI'', is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest ...

(Gurgaon), the Financial Chronicle and Firstpost. He is the managing director of ''Vygon India'', a French multinational company.

Personal life

Choudary was born on 29 August 1965 in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India. He received his education at ''Bal Bharti Air Force School Delhi'' and ''St. Joseph Convent School'', Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. He obtained graduation in Pharmacy honours from Sagar University and MBA from Shimla University. He is married to his college friend Anu Choudary.

Career

Early career

Choudary began his career joining the Jagsonpal Pharmaceuticals in 1988, switched to advertising field and again came back to the pharmaceutical sector, in

Cadila Pharmaceuticals Cadila Pharmaceuticals is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies o ...

. Later he joined the Indian multinational, Dabur Pharmaceuticals as a Marketing Manager.

CEO and managing director

Pavan is the CEO and managing director of Vygon India Pvt. Ltd., a leading French Multinational company in Healthcare. When he joined Vygon in 1997, he was amongst the youngest CEOs to head a multinational in India. He is also an active member of the worldwide strategy planning effort of Vygon and spearheads Vygon's M&A initiative in India.

Author

Choudary writes on

wisdom Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to contemplate and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, ...

and on different subjects including

Social reform A reform movement or reformism is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also a political system closer to the community's ideal. A reform movement is distinguished from more radical social movements such as revolutionary move ...

s. His recent book, How a Good Person can Really Win (Earlier version- When you are sinking become a submarine- Winning Through Wisdom and Creativity) describes how a principled man can win against an unprincipled person through wisdom and creativity. His book, The Rx Factor – Strategic Creativity in Pharmaceutical Marketing is a seminal work on marketing and strategy in healthcare. Pavan's books have also been translated into

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * * ...

Gujarati Gujarati may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India * Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat * Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them * Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub- ...

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia ** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nati ...

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

and

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...

. He co-authored two books with

;

Broom & Groom ''Broom & Groom'', by co-authors Pavan Choudary and Kiran Bedi, is a 2010 book on hygiene and manners intended to awaken "the right to civic sense" among the people of India. The book became a best-seller within six months of its launch. On a li ...

– a classic on Hygiene and manners for a social renaissance of civil behaviour, and Uprising 2011: Indians Against Corruption – an assembled chronicle of the civil-society supported anti-corruption movement in India. Success Sutras for the 21st Century: A Trilogy of Wisdom (Set of 3 Hardback books – Chanakya's Political Wisdom, Kabir's Spiritual Wisdom and Confucius’ Social Wisdom) is a political, social and spiritual commentary by Choudary that describes how to achieve Political sharpness, Social order and Spiritual bliss for the common man as well as for the statesman/politician.

TV Host and Columnist

Pavan hosts the nation-building TV program on social and civic reform Hum Aisey Kyun Hain on Doordarshan and writes a popular column (at present in recess) for The Times of India on civic reform.

Teaching

Pavan has lectured at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) at Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Kozhikode; the Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad; the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie; Sydney Technical University; Singapore Management University and other prestigious institutes in India and abroad. He has also addressed the senior management of several leading companies from across the world.

Bibliography

* The Rx Factor – Strategic Creativity in Pharmaceutical Marketing, Sage Publications, 1997: , Hardcover: , Paperback: , New edition, Wisdom Village Publications: * When you are Sinking become a Submarine, Wisdom Tree, 2007, , New edition, Wisdom Village Publications, 2006, * Success Sutras for the 21st Century: A Trilogy of Wisdom, Wisdom Village Publications, 2009, * Chanakya's Political Wisdom, Wisdom Village Publications, 2009, * Kabir's Spiritual Wisdom, Wisdom Village Publications, 2009, * Confucius' Social Wisdom, Wisdom Village Publications, 2009, *

(co-author

), Wisdom Village Publications, 2010, * Machiavelli for Moral People, Wisdom Village Publications, 2012, * Uprising 2011 (co-author

), Wisdom Village Publications, 2013, * How a Good Person can Really Win, Wisdom Village Publications, 2013, * Lal Bahadur Shastri – Lessons in Leadership, (co-author Anil Shastri) Wisdom Village Publications, 2014, * India Protests (co-author

), Wisdom Village Publications, 2014, * Swachh Bharat Checklist (co-author

), Wisdom Village Publications, 2015,

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Choudary, Pavan 1965 births Corporate executives English-language writers from India Indian chief executives Living people