BUSINESS LEADERSHIP AWARDS 2008

Dr. Bimal Jalan: Former RBI Governer and MP Rajya Sabha
Author of the bestselling works such as The Future of India: Politics, Economics and Governance and India’s Politics- A View from the backbench, Dr Bimal Jalan, former RBI Governor during whose tenure the Indian rupee note of 1000 denomination was introduced, has held several administrative and advisory positions in the Government of India. He was the Chief Economic Adviser in the 1980s, Banking Secretary between 1985 and 1989 and Finance Secretary, Ministry of Finance. As Finance Secretary, he was also on the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India. He has also been the Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister between January 1991 and September 1992. Jalan has served as the Executive Director representing India on the Boards of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Educated at Calcutta, Oxford and Cambridge universities, in August 2003, he was nominated as a Rajya Sabha member.

Mr Dorab R Sopariwala : Consultant Editor, NDTV Profit
Educated at the London School of Economics and the Imperial College of Science & Technology in London, Dorab R Sopariwala is the editorial advisor to NDTV Profit and consultant with DraftFCB Ulka and R & P Edelman. He is also one of the country's leading election analysts and has watched the electoral process for over 20 years. Without his sharp analysis many recent Indian elections would be incomplete.

Mr T N Ninan: Editor and Publisher, Business Standard
The former Editor of The Economic Times and the Executive Editor of India Today, Mr. T.N. Ninan is the Editor and Publisher of one of India's leading financial newspapers – Business Standard. He holds an MA degree in Economics and is an active member of the Editors' Guild of India. A recipient of numerous awards for his exceptional work including the B.D. Goenka award for excellence in journalism in 1992, Mr. Ninan's interest and knowledge in media, economic policies and business trends has made him a common face on National Television.

Mr. N R Narayana Murthy : Non-Executive Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys
One of the seven founders of Infosys Technologies, a global consulting and IT service company based in Bangalore. Recipient of several awards including Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award. Mr Murthy served as CEO of Infosys for twenty years, handing over the reins to a fellow co-founder in March 2002. In 1999, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ (INFY).
Mr. Murthy serves as an independent director on the board of the DBS Bank, Singapore, the largest government-owned bank in Singapore. He also serves as a director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India, as the co-chairman of the Indo-British Partnership, and as a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry. He is an IT advisor to several Asian countries.

Dr. Prannoy Roy: Chairman, NDTV
Dr. Roy is one of the leading psephologists and political analysts in India. He is the recipient of the prestigious Leverhulme fellowship for his Doctorate and a scholarship to study at the Haileybury, a leading public school in England. Dr. Roy has a doctorate in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, bachelors in Economics from the Queen Mary College, London University and is a Qualified Chartered Accountant from London. During 1985-1987, Dr. Roy was associated with the Ministry of Finance, Government of India as Economic Advisor. He has been involved with the television media since 1980 as a commentator on elections and from 1984 as one of the premier anchorpersons in India in terms of credibility, analytical depth and presentational quality. He has been adjudged the television personality of the millennium by the Indian Express poll and has contributed to various national and international publications.

Mr. Suman Dubey: Dow Jones Corporate Representative in India
Dr Dubey is responsible for coordinating the activities of all Dow Jones news and business units in the Indian market. He also contributes articles to The Wall Street Journal and its international editions.
From 1976 to 1980 and again in 1992 and early 1993, Mr. Dubey was a freelance journalist for The Asian Wall Street Journal, reporting on India. He joined Dow Jones in April 1993 as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The Asian Journal and was based in New Delhi.In March 1995, he was named Dow Jones Corporate Representative in India. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Mr. Dubey was a consultant with India Today, India’s leading news magazine (1992-1993), director of Times Television, a television programming unit of the Times of India (1990-1991) and media adviser to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (1987-1989). He was editor of Indian Express (1986-1987), one of India’s largest circulation news dailies, and managing editor of India Today (1980-1986). Mr. Dubey received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and a master’s degree in economics from Trinity College, Cambridge, England.

Rajiv K. Luthra: Founder and Managing Partner of Luthra & Luthra Law Offices
He has been identified as ‘one of the most highly acclaimed legal experts in the Asia-Pacific region' in the practice areas of Capital Markets & Corporate Finance and General Corporate Practice by the 2007 AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers. Mr. Luthra has been rendering advice for over 2 decades, on a vast range of complex commercial transactions involving tax and a multitude of corporate and civil law issues. He has successfully concluded transactions on more than fifty infrastructure projects in Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the People's Republic of China.