New Delhi: Hari S Bhartia, Co-Chairman & Managing Director of Jubilant Organosys Ltd has been elected as the President of CII for the year 2010-11. He succeeds Mr Venu Srinivasan as the new CII President.
B Muthuraman, Vice Chairman, Tata Steel, has been elected as the Vice President of CII for the year 2010-11. A B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Madras, he also holds MBA degree from XLRI Jamshedpur, and underwent an Advanced Management Programme from (CeDEP/INSEAD).
A chemical engineering graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Bhartia has been conferred Distinguished Alumni award by Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in the year 2000. Recently, he has been awarded the ‘BioSpectrum- Person of the Year’ 2009. Hari S Bhartia is married to Kavita, who is a leading Fashion Designer and Retailer, and they have a daughter Aashti 26 years and son Arjun 22 years.
Bhartia's role in institutional work includes his role in various capacities with IIT, Delhi and IIT Kanpur as Chairman of the Board of Governors, and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He has been a member in several educational and science & technology programmes of Government of India.
Mr Muthuraman is recipient of several prestigious awards like Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Madras (1997),Tata Gold Medal, Indian Institute of Metals (2002), CEO of the Year Award, IIMM (2002), National HRD Network Pathfinders Award 2004 in the CEO Category, CEO of the year, 2005, 2009 IIM-J R D Tata Award for ‘Excellence in Corporate Leadership, in Metallurgical Industries’ from The Indian Institute of Metals, besides many others. He is an avid reader and a keen cricket and golf enthusiast. |