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Distinguished Visiting

Professor of IIT Kharagpur

Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan
Mr. Ravi Kant
B. Tech, IIT Kharagpur
B. Tech, IIT Kharagpur
MBA/Advanced Business
MS, D.Sc. (Hons.), Aston Program, Harvard Business
University School

Brief Bio: Mr. Ravi Kant is a distinguished alumnus Brief Bio: Mr. R Gopalakrishnan studied
of IIT Kharagpur and is soon to join his alma mater engineering at IIT Kharagpur and attended the
as a distinguished professor. Post the completion Advanced Management Program at Harvard
of his B. Tech, he went on to pursue his Masters Business School. He has been a professional
and Honorary DSc, from Aston University. He manager from 1967 and has served as Chairman
had an illustrious career graph at Tata where he of Unilever Arabia, as MD of Brooke Bond Lipton
acted as the chairman and director for several and Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever, as ED
group companies. Mr. Kant is credited with the of Tata Sons and several Tata companies. Mr.
successful and unexpected turnaround of the once Gopalakrishnan has been a corporate leader for
struggling luxury units, Jaguar Land Rover. He also 50 years: 31years in Unilever and 19 years in Tata.
played an instrumental role in the development He was also elected as President by the “All India
and subsequent launch of the world's cheapest Management Association” in 2004. He has been
car Nano. After giving up active participation in a newspaper columnist and has authored five
running the day-to-day affairs of Tata in 2009, he books since 2007. He is an international speaker
gradually slipped into the role of a mentor and also and is actively engaged in both instructional and
a consultant. He now serves as Chairman of Indian inspirational speaking. Now, Mr. Gopalakrishnan
Institute of Management Rohtak; Tata Advanced mentors a startup called Map My Genome
Materials Ltd and TAL Manufacturing Solutions Private Limited, the board of which he chairs.
Ltd. He has been a Non-Executive Independent He also serves as an independent director of
Director of Vedanta Limited since January 29, listed companies, Akzo Nobel India, Castrol
2015. His areas of interests are global and Indian India, and Hemas Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka. His
market, corporate governance and Strategy. areas of interests are Business in India, Markets
and Customers, Governance and Strategy,
Organisation and People, and Innovation.

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