Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is a first-generation entrepreneur and global business leader with over four decades of experience in biotechnology. An unconventional thinker, she has many firsts to her credit. A biotech journey that began in 1978 from her garage in India, is today, changing lives for the better across the globe, with Biocon delivering on the promise of making medicines accessible and affordable to millions of patients, worldwide.
Professional Experience
- First-generation entrepreneur
- Founded Biocon in 1978
- 45+ years of experience in biotechnology
- Executive Chairperson, Biocon
- Non-Executive Chairperson, Syngene
Mandates
- Non-Executive Director, Narayana Health
- Former Lead Independent Director, Infosys
- Global Alumni Ambassador for Australia
- Business Ambassador for State of Victoria, Australia
Memberships
- Member, Court of Regents, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh
- Member, National Academy of Engineering (NAE), USA
- Member, The Advisory Board of The France-India Foundation
- Member, MIT Corporation, USA Member, Board of Trustees, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
- Member, Board of Trustees, Keck Graduate Institute, USA
Recognitions
- Padma Shri (1989)
- Padma Bhushan (2005)
- Othmer Gold Medal (2014)
- Kiel Institute’s Global Economy Prize for Business (2014)
- Knight of the National Order of the French Legion of Honour (2016)
- AWSM Award for Excellence (2017)
- ICMR Lifetime Achievement Award (2019)
- EY Entrepreneur of the Year, India (2019)
- Order of Australia (2020)
- EY World Entrepreneur of the Year (2020)
- H.K. Firodia Lifetime Achievement Award (2022)
- ‘Legacies 60’ Endpoints News’ list honoring 60 biopharma global pioneers
- Second most generous women philanthropist, EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List (2023)
Philanthropy
- Signatory, The Giving Pledge
- The Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre and The Mazumdar-Shaw Chair of Molecular Pathology, University of Glasgow, UK
- Establishment Patron, Science Gallery, India
- R.I. Mazumdar Young Investigator Endowment Fund, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India
- Mazumdar-Shaw International Oncology Fellows Program, The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, U.S.
- Mazumdar-Shaw International Clinical Fellowship Fund and Kidney Cancer Fellowship Fund, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, U.S.
- Mazumdar-Shaw Laboratory for Frontier Biology, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India
- Mazumdar-Shaw Research Chair, Centre for Human Genetics, India
Education
- BSc (Zoology Hons.), Bangalore University
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Malting and Brewing, Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, Melbourne, Australia
- Honorary doctorates from several prestigious global universities, including:
- University of Ballarat, Australia
- Heriot-Watt University, UK
- University of Glasgow, UK
- Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- National University of Ireland (NUI), Ireland
- University of Abertay, Dundee, UK
- Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
- Presidency University, Kolkata, India
