Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is her full name and she belongs to the Southern Indian city of Chennai.

She was born in 28 October 1955 in Madras, now Chennai. She has done her graduation from Madras Christian College (MCC) in Chemistry, Physics and Math. On completion of her graduation she went to Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta for doing Masters in Finance and Marketing. Soon after completion of her MBA she joined ABB and then Johnson and Johnson (J&J) in Mumbai. Indra Nooyi lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her husband Raj and their two daughters. Indira Nooyi is very chirpy and has a great sense of humour. She has the inclination towards arts which is supported by the fact that she is a member of the Boards of the Lincoln Center for the performing Arts in the New York City. Besides that she has been a member of the Boards of various organization prominent amongst them is the Motorola and Yale University. Nature wise she has been simple and prefers to avoid controversies

However, her career profile was not satiating her wishes to do more in life and she persuaded her parent to let her study at Yale Management School in US. She completed her Masters in Public and Private Management form Yale. Here in US before landing in the Pepsi in 1994, she had worked with Boston Consulting Group and Motorola. Indra coaxed the CEO Roger Enrico of the Pepsi to follow-up the companys restaurant division, including brands such KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, as the chief strategy officer. . If she gets an idea, she goes after it. No doubt her firmness and go getting attitude has won her laurels in the company and this helped her to build a strong foundation in the career graph to reach the top echelons in the organization where many people just day dreams to reach. As of now she is the only Indian woman to become the Chief Executive Officer of the more $ 25 Billion Multinational, and perhaps the first Indian to reach to this level. For Indira this has been a both tough and exciting experience. As she has said in her own word that being a woman, immigrant and colour made it thrice difficult for her to reach to this destination, but only mantra which she followed during the course of time was working hard twice as the male counterpart.

The faculty members of IIM Calcutta has brought out this facts to the media that she has been a very mediocre student in the campus

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Nooyi joined PepsiCo in 1994 and was named president and CFO in 2001. Nooyi has directed the company's global strategy for more than a decade and led PepsiCo's restructuring, including the 1997 divestiture of its restaurants into Tricon, now known as Yum! Brands. Nooyi also took the lead in the acquisition of Tropicana in 1998,[5] and merger with Quaker Oats Company, which also brought Gatorade to PepsiCo. In 2007 she became the fifth CEO in PepsiCo's 44-year history.[6] According to BusinessWeek, since she started as CFO in 2000,[7] the company's annual revenues have risen 72%, while net profit more than doubled, to $5.6 billion in 2006.[8]
Nooyi was named on Wall Street Journal's list of 50 women to watch in 2007 and 2008,[9][10] and was listed among Time's 100 Most Influential People in The World in 2007 and 2008. Forbes named her the #3 most powerful woman in 2008.[11] Fortune ranked her the #1 most powerful woman in business in 2009 and 2010.

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Awarding organization Wake Forest University. University of Warwick. Miami University.

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2011 Honorary Doctor of Laws 2011 Honorary Doctor of Laws 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Law

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2010 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Pennsylvania State University. 2009 Honorary Degree 2009 Barnard Medal of Honor 2008 Honorary Degree 2007 Padma Bhushan 2004 Honorary Doctor of Laws Duke University. Barnard College. New York University. President of India. Babson College.

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CONCLUSION, Indra Nooyi is the truly global in her thinking keeping a wide perspective about the world and has great intellect.