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Kiran Mazumdar-ShawChairman & Managing Director, Biocon Limited

A successful technocrat of global standing, Ms. Shaw heads Indias

leading Biotechnology enterprise, Biocon. She is highly respected in

the corporate world and has been named among TIME magazines

100 most influential people in the world. Recently, Economic Times

placed her at India Incs top 10 most powerful women CEOs for the

year 2012. Her pioneering efforts in biotechnology have drawn global

recognition both for Indian Industry and Biocon. U.S.-based Chemical

Heritage Foundation has conferred Ms Shaw with the 2014 OthmerGold Medal for her multifaceted contributions to chemical and

scientific heritage.

Ms. Shaw is a part of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) Board

of Trustees and is also a Member of the USP Biologics Advisory

Group. She has served on the Board of Science Foundation, Ireland.

Kiran is the founder member of the Karnataka's Vision Group on

Biotechnology and currently chairs this forum. She also serves on the National Advisory Council of the

Governments Department of Biotechnology, where she has been instrumental in bringing government,

industry and academia together, to charter a clear and progressive growth path for Biotechnology in India.

Ms. Shaw serves as Member, Governing Body and General Body of the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission,

an Autonomous Body of the Government of India. Ms. Shaw is also on the honorary board of advisors of

The National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS), USA.

She is a part of the Prime Ministers Council on Trade &Industry in India and the US-India CEO Forum. She is

also a member of the Governing Council of National Foundation for Corporate Governance, Ministry of

Corporate Affairs, Government of India and a member of the Union Commerce Ministry-instituted

committee to advise the government on India's export promotion strategy. Additionally, she is a member of

the Eminent Persons Group of the Competition Commission of India, and a co-opted member on the new

Board of governors of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).

She is a founder member of the Society for the formation of "Institute for Stem Cell Biology and

Regenerative Medicine". Ms. Shaw has been nominated as Member of the Board of Trade, Directorate

General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce & Industry. Moreover, she is serving on the Global

Advisory Committee for its Women and the Green Economy Campaign (WAGE) initiative that engages

with women in business, government and NGO leaders to help create and develop a global green economy.

Ms. Shaw is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Nikkei Asia Prize, 2009 for Regional

Growth, Express Pharmaceutical Leadership Summit Award 2009 for Dynamic Entrepreneur, the Economic

Times Businesswoman of the Year, the Veuve Clicquot Initiative For Economic Development For Asia,

Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Life Sciences & Healthcare, Technology Pioneer

recognition by World Economic Forum and The Indian Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Ms Shaw is also an Independent Member of the Board of Infosys, a global leader in consulting, technology

and outsourcing solutions.

Her most cherished awards are the national awards, PADMASHRI (1989) and PADMA BHUSHAN (2005)

presented to her by the President of India, for her pioneering efforts in Industrial Biotechnology.

Ms. Shaw received a graduate honors degree in Zoology from Bangalore University (1973) and qualified as a

Master Brewer from Ballarat University, Australia (1975). Ms Shaw also received an honorary Doctorate of

Science in 2004, from her alma mater, Ballarat University, in recognition of her pre-eminent contributions

to the field of Biotechnology. She has also been awarded honorary doctorates from University of Abertay,

Dundee, U.K. (2007), University of Glasgow, U.K. (2008) and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. (2008).

She recently received an honorary Doctorate of Science by the National University of Ireland (2012) for her

contribution to economic life and was also conferred an honorary doctorate by Trinity College, Dublin(2012).

Under her stewardship, Biocon has evolved from its inception in 1978 as an industrial enzymes company to

a fully integrated Biopharmaceutical enterprise encompassing a well-balanced business portfolio of

products and services with a research focus on Diabetes, Oncology and Auto-immune disease. Biocon also

has a subsidiary, Syngene, which was established in 1994 to provide research services and contract

manufacturing to the big pharma industry. Biocon has also built a remarkable Research Services business

through Syngene and Clinigene that offers integrated discovery and development solutions for both small

and large molecules.

A leading US trade publication, Med Ad News, in its 2007/08 listings ranked Biocon 20th amongst theleading biotechnology companies in the world and the 7th largest Biotech employer in the world. Science'

Magazine has ranked it at No. 6 on the annual Global 'Top Twenty Employers' list for the Bio-Pharma sector.

Ms Shaws commitment to affordable healthcare extends beyond business. She is passionately focused on

innovation led healthcare solutions for sustainable and affordable healthcare for the marginalized

communities. Her philanthropic initiatives include an innovative micro-health insurance program based on

delivering cashless healthcare through primary healthcare clinics in rural areas of Karnataka, an education

initiative based on math education for school children in government schools as well making quality cancer

care affordable to a larger patient population. She has established the 1,400-bed Mazumdar-Shaw Cancer

Center (MSCC) in Bangalore in partnership with renowned heart surgeon Dr Devi Shetty to deliveraffordable world-class cancer care services to patients irrespective of socio-economic status and class.

She is also the Honorary Consul of Ireland in Bangalore.

She is married to John Shaw, a Scotsman and Indophile, who headed a leading textiles MNC, Madura Coats

from 1991-1998 as Chairman and Managing Director. John Shaw is currently the Vice-Chairman, Biocon

Limited.