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Ratan Naval Tata KBE HonFREng
Chairman, Tata Group
 Ratan Tata became Chairman of Tata Sons – the promoter company of
Tata Group – in 1991. Since then the revenues of this 350,000 employee organisation have
grown nearly twelvefold, two thirds of the business being outside the Indian subcontinent and
including a resurgent British automotive and steel sector. Having initially studied architecture
with structural engineering at Cornell University, he returned to India to work with the company
in the 1960s, starting on the Jamshedpur shop floor shovelling limestone and handling a blast
furnace. By the 1980s he was Chairman of Tata Industries and busy transforming it into a group
strategy think tank and promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses.
He advises companies and organisations around the world and co-chairs the
India-British CEO Trade Relationship Forum. He is renowned for his philanthropic work and has
received a Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, and he chairs two of India’s largest
private-sector-promoted philanthropic trusts. He is also President of the Court of the Indian
Institute of Science and has received numerous honorary degrees from universities including
Cambridge, Warwick and the London School of Economics.
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