Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (most powerful women entrepreneur in India)
Kiran muzumdar shaw was
born on 23rd march 1953 in pune, maharashtra. She was educated at Bangalore's
Bishop Cotton Girl's High School, and graduating in 1968. she graduated her
bachelor degree at Banglore University in zoology in 1973.
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is
known as India’s wealthiest self-made women entrepreneur who found a
biopharmaceutical firm in 1978. This firm has entered in US biosimilars market
and is getting the attention of investors. As per Forbes, it is the first
company to get approval from the USFDA. She has put big fortune to build deep
R&D- Based biotech firm. In 2019 she held the title called Indian’s 54th
richest person and world’s 65th powerful woman. As far as her qualification is
concerned, she did a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Bangalore University
and Melbourne University respectively.
She is the chairperson
and managing director of Biocon Limited, a biotechnology company based in
Bangalore, India and the former chairperson of Indian Institute of Management,
Bangalore. Named among TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the
world, she is recognized as a global thought leader for Biotechnology. Under
her stewardship. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has been named EY World Entrepreneur of
the Year 2020, becoming the third Indian and the second woman worldwide to win
this recognition. She recounts her entrepreneurial struggles.
The firm has
successfully forayed into the lucrative US biosimilars market 2021, catching
the attention of investors. The company has sold 3 billion doses of insulin to
date and has Asia's largest insulin factory in Malaysia's Johor region. Biocon
has received Indian regulatory permission to conduct phase 4 trials for its
drug Itolizumab as a potential treatment for Covid-19. Her philanthropic
initiative, The Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, aims to create a sustainable,
affordable cancer care model.
Awards and honors:
Mazumdar-Shaw was named
among TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the world,2010.
She was listed as the
92nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes,2014.
internationally awarded
with the Othmer Gold Medal (2014) for outstanding contributions to the progress
of science and chemistry.
She is awarded with
padma shri(1989) and padma bhushan(2005)in bio technology sector from the govt
of india .
Economic Times Award for
'Business woman of the Year' in 2004.
She has also received
the Indian Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award (2005).
The 'Corporate Leadership Award' by the
American India Foundation (2005).
References:
Wikipedia, Forbes, the
times of india, Fortune india.
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