The Project on India and the Subcontinent of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will co-host with the Belfer Center a Seminar with Narayana Murthy on Wednesday, February 13, in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Mr. Murthy is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited, one of the largest global Information Technology (IT) consulting and software services providers in India. He founded Infosys in 1981 along with six other software professionals and served as the CEO of Infosys for twenty one years before handing over the reins of the company to co-founder, Mr. Nandan M. Nilekani, in March 2002. Under his leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ in 1999. He served as the Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor from 2002 to 2006.
Mr. Murthy articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery Model which has become the foundation for the huge success in IT services outsourcing from India. He has led key corporate governance initiatives in India. He is an IT advisor to several Asian countries. Mr. Murthy serves as an independent director on the boards of several global companies including Unilever, London and DBS Bank, Singapore. He is also a member of the advisory boards and councils of several educational institutions including Wharton, Cornell, INSEAD, Stanford, Tokyo University, SMU - Singapore, IIITB -Bangalore and ESSEC, Paris.
Mr. Murthy is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. The Economist ranked him 8th in the list of the fifteen most-admired global leaders in 2005. He was ranked 28th among the world's most-respected business leaders by the Financial Times in 2005. In 2004, The TIME magazine identified him as one of the ten global leaders who are helping shape the future of technology. He was featured in BusinessWeek’s “The Stars of Asia” for three consecutive years – 1998, 1999 and 2000. He was voted the “World Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst and Young in 2003, and India's most powerful CEO for three consecutive years – 2004, 2005 and 2006 – by Economic Times. He was chosen as the “Business Process Innovator” by The Economist in 2007. He received the Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership medal from The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2007 for his pioneering role in the globalization of IT services.
Mr. Murthy obtained B. E. (Electrical) from the University of Mysore in 1967 and M. Tech. (Electrical) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1969. He has been conferred honorary doctorate degrees by several well-known universities in India and abroad.
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