Born in 1967, the 41 year old Kumar Mangalam Birla is undoubtedly one of the youngest Chancellors of universities in India today. An iconic leader, Mr. Birla who holds several key positions on various regulatory and professional boards is Chairman of the US$ 28 billion Aditya Birla Group which is India’s first truly multinational corporation. Mr Birla has served as the chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India’s Committee on Corporate Governance, and as chairman of SEBI’s committee on insider trading. He has also been playing a stellar role on the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII); the Apex Advisory Council of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, New Delhi and the Advisory Council for the Centre for Corporate Governance. Holder of Honorary Doctorates conferred by various Universities and winner of several coveted awards for corporate leadership, Mr Kumar Mangalam Birla is an alumnus of the London Business School, where he is also an Honorary Fellow.

1957 born Smt Shobana Bhartia is an alumnus of Calcutta University and takes credit for spearheading Hindustan Times right on top of web popularity of Indian Newspapers. Well known in the Indian media fraternity for setting new benchmark in the horizon of Indian media, Smt. Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson and Editorial Director of India’s leading print media company HT Media Ltd., is publisher of English daily Hindustan Times and Hindi daily Hindustan both highly respected and top ranking newspapers in India. She has been Rajya Sabha member, the Chairperson of the Press Trust of India (PTI), the Deputy Chairperson of the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC), and member of the National Institute of Fashion Design, the National Institute of Design (NID), Indian Newspaper Society and Commonwealth Press Union London. Her media initiatives such as Mint, a business daily launched in collaboration with the Wall Street Journal, FM Channel Fever 104 partnering with Virgin Radio and daily tabloid Metro Now as joint venture with Times of India have been making waves all over.

It goes without saying that Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani which is one among the top ranking universities in India today has always been led by a leader who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

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Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani Rajasthan which has the reputation of pioneering the online examinations for admissions through the path breaking BITSAT and setting a bench mark in industry university collaborations is one among the top ranking universities towering above the rest in various best college surveys in India today. BITS offers degrees in various disciplines presently at Pilani, Dubai, Goa and Hyderabad campuses apart from an array of work integrated learning programmes for HRD of a vast spectrum of Indian corporates. The alumni of the Institute who are who is who in various professions and Proud to be BITSians peaking with Passion Quotient for Alma mater are spread across the globe from Australia to America.