Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, founder and current Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon Limited, has been named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year for 2020.
Shaw, a front runner in India’s pharmaceutical industry, has become the third Indian to receive this prestigious award. She joins the leagues of newly-appointed CII president Uday Kotak who won the award in 2014 and Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys.
Shaw is also the second woman to receive this award after Olivia Lum of Hyflux Limited from Singapore won the title in 2011.
