Rajat Gupta

Rajit Kumar Gupta (born December 2, 1948) is currently working as the Special Adviser of the United Nations General Secretary of the United Nations (Management Reform). He is also the Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce, Independent Manager of Goldman Sachs, member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago, and co-chairman of the American Indian Foundation.

early life

Rajat Gupta is the son of Ashwani Kumar Gupta and Pran Kumari Gupta, who has three more children. Her father was a journalist in Ananda Bazar Patrika group. He was a major freedom fighter and had gone to jail many times. Her mother taught in Montessori School.

At the age of five, his family moved to Delhi where his father started the Hindustan Standard. When Rajat was sixteen years old, his father died and at the age of eighteen, his mother also walked.

He was an excellent student at Delhi Public School He has obtained a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. . Career

Rajat Gupta joined McKinsey & Company in 1973 and became the first person to reach the post of Managing Director who was born outside the United States; On this prestigious post, he successfully completed his three stanzas. Rajat Gupta became Scandinavian offices in 1981 and Head of Chicago Office in 1990. In 1994, he was appointed managing director. Rajat Gupta is widely credited with being the first Indian to reach top position in a Western company.

He assumed the role of office manager in 1989, became managing director of the firm in 1994 and was re-elected twice, once in 1997 and second in 2000. Since joining the firm, many projects have been started under the supervision of Rajat Gupta, whose purpose is to help the companies to develop new products / market strategies and to reorganize so that their efficacy and operational capabilities can be improved. He has extensive experience in providing consultation to a variety of industries including telecommunications, energy and consumer goods. In 2000, Rajat Gupta was ranked among the Top 10 Advisors of the World.

Rajat Gupta is a member of Harvard Business School and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management Advisory Boards. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Indian School of Business located in Hyderabad, India, as well as Chairman of The Global Fund, which provides funding for AIDS, TB and Malaria. They are also associated with many other professional and professional organizations, such as: Lauder Institute of Management & Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; With the Board of Governors of International Studies; President of Board of Associates of Harvard Business School; And the Advisory Council of the Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management.

In addition, Rajat Gupta is also on the board of American Airlines Inc. (Director and Member of the Audit Committee), Genpact Limited (President and Member of the nomination and administration committee), Proctor and Gamble Company (Director), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Independent Director) and Sberbank (independent member of the Supervisory Council). Rajat Gupta is also the co-chairman of the American Indian Foundation (AIF), whose aim is to accelerate social and economic change in India. They are more interested in AIF's public health work, and give greater emphasis on fighting HIV / AIDS in India.

Rajat Gupta was recently appointed as Special Advisor (Management Reform) of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. On 1 July 2010, he became president of the International Chamber of Commerce (International Chamber of Commerce). On 10 November 2006, he was appointed as an independent director in Goldman Sachs. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago, has advised McKinsey's work for the Bill and Melinda Gates AIDS Foundation and his Global Health Initiative and is currently employed as a Trustee on the Rockefeller Foundation's board. It was announced on March 19, 2010 that Rajat Kumar Gupta has decided not to stand up again for Goldman Sachs's Board of Directors in the annual 2010 meeting of shareholders.

On April 15, 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported that the United States Federal Prosecutor is investigating Gallon Hej-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam allegedly for providing insider information through him during the financial crisis. By September 2010, the investigation against Rajat Gupta has proved to be inconclusive.

Since 2009, Rajat Gupta has started focusing his attention towards further improvement in education facilities and infrastructure in India. In 2010, he released a report titled "Transforming the Nations Logistic Infrastructure", in which he said that due to poor infrastructure, India could face a loss of up to $ 100 billion in its GDP by 2020. They are also working towards improving management education in Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

In July 2010, Rajat Gupta took over as the Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce. Insider trading punishment

Rajat Gupta was found guilty in four cases of Insider Trading fraud in June 2012. In October 2012, Gupta was sent to two years' jail. In addition, a fine of $ 5 million was also asked to be felicitated. The decision was made on March 25, 2014 by the Federal Appeal Court of the United States to be named as accused. After this, Gupta filed an appeal in the US Supreme Court, asking for his freedom to be heard till the hearing of the court's appeal. On June 17, 2014, his two-year jail sentence was retained. personal life

Rajat Gupta married Anita Mattoo of Srinagar, Kashmir in IIT. He is an electrical engineer and according to him (Rajat Gupta) he is "far better student" than him. Both of them were met during debate and plays conducted in college.

They currently live with their wives and four daughters - Gitanjali, Megha, Aditi and Deepali in Westport, Connecticut. External episodes

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