Anand Mahindra

Non Executive / Chairperson
  • Director Verified:
  • No
Login/ Register  to follow report
Company:

About

Mr. Anand Mahindra is the Chairman of the Mahindra Group. His tenure has seen the Group expand domestically and internationally into a range of major industrial sectors from automobiles and agriculture to IT and aerospace. The Group has also grown inorganically through a series of acquisitions that include Peugeot Motorcycles-France, Holiday Club Resorts-Finland and Pininfarina S.p.A-Italy.

Mr. Mahindra graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College (1977) and secured an MBA from the Harvard Business School (1981). He made a generous endowment in 2010 to the Harvard Humanities Center which is now known as the Mahindra Humanities Centre at Harvard. In 2008 he was bestowed the Harvard Business School’s Alumni Achievement Award and in 2014 he became the first Indian recipient of the Harvard Alumni Association’s Harvard Medal

He has served on several influential bodies including the UN Global Compact Board, Global Board of Advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the World Bank Group’s Advisory Board for Doing Business. Mr. Mahindra has been conferred with the Padma Bhushan Award (2020), India’s third highest civilian honour. He was appointed ‘Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honour’ by the President of the French Republic (2016) and conferred the ‘Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy’, by the President of Italy (2013). An incisive business commentator and humanitarian with over 9 million followers on Twitter, Mr. Mahindra also initiated the Nanhi Kali programme, which, for the last two decades, has provided over half a million under-privileged girls access to high quality education.

 

Personal Details

Title: Mr
Surname: Mahindra
DoB: 01/05/1955
Age: 71 years
M/F: Male
Nationality: India
Country of Birth: India
Language: English
Qualification: MBA
Industry:

 

Qualifications & Experience

 

Industry Experience +5yrs:
Industry Qualification +5yrs?:
Finance experience +5yrs?:
Finance Qualification +5yrs:
Legal experience +5yrs?:
Delinquent director?:
Other Experiences?:
Collapsed company director?:

 

Other directorships (state)

(only entities turnover at least $5m p/a)

 

Working history

 

Committee/s

CompanyCommitteeRoleAppointment DateResignation Date
Mahindra GroupBoardChairperson23/11/1989
Mahindra GroupIndustry SpecificMember23/11/1989
Mahindra GroupSocial & EthicsMember23/11/1989
Mahindra GroupOtherChairperson23/11/1989

 

Independence Questions

Any family members working for the company?:
Are you doing business with the company?:
Do you hold shares in the company for more than 0.10%? (directly or by representation):
Is your Director annual fee more than 5% of your total income from all sources?:
Are you more than 10 years as a director?:
Are you an executive chairperson?:
InsidEntity has assumed that responses to the Independent Questions are NO as the company has not populated the information. The result will present the Director as Independent.
Download PDF