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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

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Indian businessperson, Founder and Chairperson, Biocon; billionaire

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur. She is the executive chairperson and founder of Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India and the former chairperson of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
said · May 26, 2025
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I believe we are in a humanitarian business, she says, and I think we are doing our bit for affordable access, which is what we want

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure, and succeed after failing

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement

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Awards 10

2022Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2020Honorary Member of the Order of Australia
2016Knight of the Legion of Honour
2014Othmer Gold Medal
2014Global Economy Prize
2009Nikkei Asia Prize
2008honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow
2005Padma Shri in trade and industry
1989Padma Bhushan in science & engineering
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur. She is the executive chairperson and founder of Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India and the former chairperson of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. In 2014, she was awarded the Othmer Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to the progress of science and chemistry. She was on the Financial Times 2011 top 50 women in business list. In 2019, she was listed as the 68th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She was named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020.

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Born 1953 · age 73
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