Dato Dr Ranjan Pai (born 11 November 1972w) is an Indian

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and the chairman of the Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG), which runs six universities and twenty eight hospitals across the globe.

Early life and education

Ranjan Pai was born to

Ramdas Pai Ramdas Madhava Pai (born 17 September 1935) is an Indian health administrator and the incumbent Chancellor at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, and chairman of the Manipal Education and Medical Group. Education Pai graduated with his M ...

who is a

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awardee 2011 and

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of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). His grandfather,

T. M. A. Pai Tonse Madhava Ananth Pai (30 April 1898 – 29 May 1979), was an Indian physician, educationist, banker and philanthropist, most well-known for building the university town of Manipal, India. He was the first to start a private, self-finan ...

(Tonse Madhava Ananth Pai), set up the

Kasturba Medical College Kasturba Medical College, Manipal and Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, together known as KMC, are two private medical colleges in coastal Karnataka, India, established in 1953.Kasturba Medical College Kasturba Medical College, Manipal and Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, together known as KMC, are two private medical colleges in coastal Karnataka, India, established in 1953.Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

. He initially planned to continue with the family’s not-for-profit education trust, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), but later changed his mind and joined MEMG’s business. He started MEMG in the year 2000 out of a rented house in Bengaluru with a capital of $200,000. Now the entity is valued at around $3 billion.

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