Speaker
Agriculture Panel
Speaker

Adi Godrej

Chairman, The Godrej Group

Adi Godrej is Chairman of The Godrej Group.  The Godrej Group is a mainly privately held, over a 100 year-old family conglomerate, with operations in India and several other countries.

Mr. Godrej has been president of several Indian Trade and Industrial Bodies and associations.

He is Chairman of the Board of the Indian School of Business, and Past President of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He has been a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council of the MIT Sloan School of Management, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies and a member of the Wharton Asian Executive Board.  Mr. Godrej is a patron of the Himalayan Club. He is a recipient of several awards and recognitions including the Rajiv Gandhi Award 2002, The American India Foundation (AIF) Leadership in Philanthropy Award, May 2010, The Entrepreneur of the Year for the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2010, Best Businessman of the Year for the GQ Men of the Year Awards 2010, Chemexcil’s Life Time Achievement Award 2010,  AIMA-JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award 2010, BMA-Management Man of the Year Award 2010-2011,  Qimpro Platinum Standard award for business in 2011, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year 2012, the Padma Bhushan 2012 and The Asian Awards 2013, Entrepreneur of the Year.

Mr. Godrej holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.