Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is a first-generation entrepreneur and global business leader with over 4 decades of experience in biotechnology. Fueled by her passion, she started her biotech journey in 1978 from her garage in India. Today, that journey is changing lives for the better across the globe. She is regarded as an unconventional thinker with many firsts to her credit. Under her aegis, Biocon delivers on the promise of making medicines accessible and affordable to millions of patients worldwide.

Chairperson of the Board of Directors since inception.
Professional experience

• First-generation entrepreneur
• Founded Biocon in 1978
• Non-Executive Chairperson, Syngene
• Board member, Narayana Hrudayalaya
• Board member, Trent Limited
• Board Member, The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP)
• Member of Board of Advisors, Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology (FAST India)
• Member of Board of Directors, Science Gallery Bengaluru, part of the Global Science Gallery Network pioneered by Trinity College Dublin
• Member of The Advisory Board of The France-India Foundation
• Honorary Member, Indio-American Chamber of Commerce
• Vice Chair, USIBC Global Board of Directors
• Honorary member, US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)
• Member, National Academy of Engineering (NAE), U.S.
• Full-term member, MIT Corporation, U.S.
• Member of the Board of Trustees, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, U.S.
• Member, Board of Advisors, The National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS), U.S.
• Member, Board of Directors, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, U.S.
• Global Alumni Ambassador - India, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia
• Member of the Court of Regents at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Victorian Business Ambassador, The State Govt. of Victoria, Australia
• Honorary Consulate General of Ireland in Bengaluru
• 45+ years of experience in Biotechnology

Recognitions

• Recipient of Padma Shri (1989), Padma Bhushan (2005)
• Recipient of EY World Entrepreneur of the Year (2020) and EY Entrepreneur of the Year India Award (2019)
• Recipient of Order of Australia (2020)
• Recipient of ICMR's Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Healthcare (2019)
• Recipient of AWSM Award for Excellence (2017)
• Knight of the National Order of the French Legion of Honour (2016)
• Recipient of Othmer Gold Medal (2014)
• Recipient of Global Economy Prize for Business (2014)

Education

• B.Sc. (Zoology Hons.), Bangalore University
• Post-Graduate Diploma, Malting and Brewing, Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, Melbourne, Australia
• Honorary Doctorates from several prestigious universities, including:
  
  • Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
  • Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
  • Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
  • University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
  • University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland, UK
  • Ballarat University, Australia
  • Presidency University, Kolkata, India
  • Bennett University, Greater Noida, India