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the Tata Group since 1991, Ratan N Tata is the Chairman
of Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata Group, and
major Group companies including, Tata Motors, Tata Steel,
Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Tea, Tata
Chemicals, Indian Hotels, Tata Teleservices and Tata
AutoComp. He is also Chairman of two of the largest
private sector promoted philanthropic trusts in India.
During his tenure, the Group has further expanded its
global reach, with its revenues growing over sixfold
to Rs 97,000 crore ($21.9 billion).
Mr
Tata joined the Tata Group in December 1962. After serving
in various companies, he was appointed the Director-in-Charge
of The National Radio & Electronics Company Limited
(Nelco) in 1971. In 1981, he was named Chairman of Tata
Industries, the Group's other holding company, where
he was responsible for transforming it into the Group's
strategy think-tank and a promoter of new ventures in
high-technology businesses.
He
is associated with various organisations in India and
abroad in varying capacities, some of which are:
- Chairman, government
of India's Investment Commission
- Member, Prime Minister's
Council on Trade and Industry
- Member, National Hydrogen
Energy Board
- Member, National Manufacturing
Competitiveness Council
- Serving on the International
Investment Council set up by the president of the
Republic of South Africa
- Serving the International
Business Advisory Council of the British government
to advise the chancellor of the exchequer
- Member, International
Advisory Council of Singapore's Economic Development
Board
- Member, Asia-Pacific
Advisory Committee to the board of directors of the
New York Stock Exchange
- Member, international
advisory boards of the Mitsubishi Corporation, the
American International Group and JP Morgan Chase
- President, court of
the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Chairman, council of
management, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
Mumbai
- Member, board of trustees
of the Rand Corporation, Cornell University and University
of Southern California, and the Foundation Board of
the Ohio State University
- Chair, advisory board
of RAND's Center for Asia Pacific Policy
- Member, Global Business
Council on HIV / AIDS and the programme board of the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's India AIDS initiative
Mr Tata received a Bachelor
of Science degree in architecture from Cornell University
in 1962. He worked briefly with Jones and Emmons in
Los Angeles, California, before returning to India in
late 1962. He completed the Advanced Management Program
at Harvard Business School in 1975.
The government of India
honoured Mr Tata with one of its highest civilian awards,
the Padma Bhushan, on Republic Day, January 26, 2000.
He has also been conferred an honorary doctorate in
business administration by the Ohio State University,
an honorary doctorate in technology by the Asian Institute
of Technology, Bangkok, and an honorary doctorate in
science by the University of Warwick.
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