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Sunil Bharti Mittal is the Founder, Chairman and Group CEO of

Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading business groups with
interests in telecom, financial services, retail, realty,
manufacturing and agriculture.

Sunil started his career at 18 after graduating from Punjab

University in India in 1976 and founded Bharti. Today, at 52, he
heads a successful enterprise which employs over 30,000 people.
Bharti Airtel, the flagship group company, has a market
capitalization of approximately US$ 25 billion.

Sunil has been recognized with the Padma Bhushan, one of

India’s highest civilian awards. He has also received the Lal
Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public
Administration, Academics and Management for 2009. He is a
past President of the Confederation of Indian Industry, the
premier industry body in India (2007-08). 

Sunil has been awarded numerous awards and recognitions

including the Global Economy Prize 2009 by The Kiel Institute,
Germany. The US-India Business Council has also honored him
with the ‘Global Vision’ Award 2008. He has received the GSM
 Association Chairman's Award for 2008. 

Sunil was Co-chairman of the World Economic Forum in 2007 at

Davos and is a member of its International Business Council. He
is a member of the Leadership Council of The Climate Group.
He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace. He is a member of several
premier international bodies –International Advisory Committee
to the NYSE Euronext Board of Directors, the International
Business Advisory Council of London and the Advisory Board of
the Global Economic Symposium. Sunil is also on the Telecom
Board of the International Telecommunication Union, the leading
UN Agency for Information and Communication Technology.
He is also a member of the Indo-US CEOs Forum.

He serves as a member of the Executive Board of the Indian

School of Business. He is also a member of the Academy of
Distinguished Entrepreneurs, Babson College, Wellesley,
Massachusetts. 

Sunil believes a responsible corporate has a duty to give back to

the community in which it operates. This belief has resulted in
Bharti Foundation, which is committed to providing education to
under-privileged children in rural India. 

Sunil has been conferred with the degree of Doctor of Laws

(Honoris Causa) by the University of Leeds, UK and the degree
of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the Govind Ballabh
Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. He is an alumnus
of Harvard Business School, USA. He is an Honorary Fellow of
The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers.

 
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