Y. C. Deveshwar
Chairman
ITC
Limited
Kolkata
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1947. Y. C. Deveshwar graduated as mechanical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
He joined ITC Limited in 1968 and assumed the position of Director on the Board of the company in 1984. From 1991 to 1994, he led Air India as Chairman and Managing Director. In 1996, Y. C. Deveshwar returned to ITC Limited and was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Under his leadership, ITC Limited has evolved into a leading multi-business conglomerate with interests in fast moving consumer goods, hotels, paperboards and packaging, agri business and information technology. He has given expression to ITC’s sustainability philosophy by fashioning corporate strategies that not only enhance shareholder value but add significantly to the development of natural and social capital. Therefore, the company’s businesses generate livelihoods for over five million people, many of whom represent the poorest in rural India.
Y. C. Deveshwar is the former President of the Confederation of Indian Industry and the former Chairman of the Society and Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian School of Business and also serves on the National Executive Committees of some of India’s premier trade and industry bodies. In addition, Y. C. Deveshwar is a member of the Chief Executive Officer’s Forum instituted by the governments of the United States of America and India.
Y. C. Deveshwar has received several awards and recognitions such as the SAM/SPG Sustainability Leadership Award 2007 at the International Sustainability Leadership Symposium and the Business Person of the Year Award 2006 by the UK Trade & Investment by His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. He was inducted to the prestigious Hall of Pride at the Indian Science Congress and was elected Manager Entrepreneur of the Year 2001 by Ernst & Young.
38th St. Gallen Symposium
Keynote Address
Building
Financial, Ecological and Social Capital
Friday,
16 May 2008, 08:15–08:55
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