Harshavardhan Neotia

Harshavardhan Neotia is the Chairman of the Ambuja Neotia Group. He is an entrepreneur, a connoisseur of the arts and an enthusiast of Indian heritage. A pioneer in India’s social housing sector, he was conferred with the Padma Shri in 1999. He has also been bestowed with the Banga Bibhushan, the highest civilian honour from the Government of West Bengal. He is a recipient of the YPO Legacy of Honour Award and was conferred the DLitt. (Honoris Causa) by Vidyasagar University and the Assam Royal Global University. He is an active member and a past President of both FICCI and AIMA. He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, as Chairperson of the National Institute of Technology, Mizoram and a Council Member of the National Culture Fund of the Government of India. He is a Director on the Board of Invest India, a member of the West Bengal Heritage Commission and Chairman of the CII-Suresh Neotia Centre of Excellence for Leadership. He has formerly been on the board of IIM Kolkata, IIT Kharagpur, and a member of The Court of Jawaharlal Nehru University. He heads Jnana Pravaha, a Centre for Cultural Studies and Research in Varanasi as Chairman and is one of the trustees of the Shree Somnath Trust.