The Asian Scientist 100
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Chairman & Managing Director
Institution
Biocon Ltd
Country
India
Field
Business
Mazumdar-Shaw won the Kiel Institute’s 2014 Global Economy Prize for Business for growing Biocon into one of India’s largest biopharmaceutical companies.
(Photo: Biocon)
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