Chandrajit Banerjee is the Director General of the

Confederation of Indian Industry The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is a non-governmental trade association and advocacy group headquartered in New Delhi, India, founded in 1895. CII engages business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global ...

(CII) and member of a number of government advisory bodies at national and international levels. As DG of CII, he is responsible for leading and contributing to many policy level dialogues and discussions to enhance the competitiveness of India Inc and towards the development of India. He has been with the CII since 1987 and has served as its Director General since 2008. In this post, he is responsible for the overall operations of CII.

Education

Chandrajit Banerjee is a post-graduate in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

with specialisation in economics of planning and

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from the

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. Earlier, he did his schooling from the

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and then his graduation from

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in Economics (Hons). He has been honoured with Honorary Doctorate (D. Phil Honoris Causa) from Amity University and Honorary Doctorate in Business Management from the Xavier Institute of Management (Xavier University), Bhubaneswar.

Career

Prior to his appointment as Director General of CII, he held several senior positions in key areas including sectoral verticals of Manufacturing, Services, Agriculture and Life Sciences as well as the SME sector. He has also led CII’s policy work relating to macroeconomic policy, financial services and corporate governance. He was also in charge of CII’s regional operations. He was also the first

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of the National Foundation of Corporate Governance (NFCG), an organisation set up by the

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. Banerjee is member of various government advisory committees. He is the vice chairman of the Asia Pacific Chapter of UFI, a global association of the exhibition industry. He is the Co-chairman of the Governing Council. He was also the co-chairman of

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(OIFC), a not-for-profit public private initiative of

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(MOIA) and CII, established in 2007. He is a Member of the

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's Global Agenda Council on India. Banerjee is also a member of the Advisory Council to the

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and also a member of the Board of Governors of

Indian Institute of Management Ranchi The Indian Institute of Management Ranchi (IIM Ranchi, IIM-R) is a public business school located in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. IIM Ranchi was established in Ranchi on 15 December 2009 and began classes on 6 July 2010, under the 11th Five Year P ...

. He is in the Board of Trustees and Governing Council of National Foundation for Corporate Governance (NFCG) as a Member. He holds / has held Trusteeship and Board Member posts in many global and Indian institutions which includes Institute of Economic Growth (IEG); Global Innovation and Technology Alliance (GITA); Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust (BYST); Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM);

(WEF); Global Agenda Council of India; Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC);

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(IIM), etc. He is also a Member of the Managing Committee of SPORTSCOM and Governing Council Member of some Sector Skill Councils. CII Foundation and India@75 Foundation, which are promoted and supported by CII, are also two institutions where CB is a Board level member. He is a Director on the Board at the ‘Invest India’ which is set up by the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade,

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, Government of India. Chandrajit Banerjee is also a Director of the Singapore India Partnership Foundation (SIPF). He is also Secretary for many bilateral CEOs Forums constituted by the Government of India like

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, etc.

Awards

Chandrajit Banerjee has been awarded the China-India Friendship Award by the Chinese prime minister

Wen Jiabao Wen Jiabao (born 15 September 1942) is a retired Chinese politician who served as the Premier of the State Council from 2003 to 2013. In his capacity as head of government, Wen was regarded as the leading figure behind China's economic policy ...

for his contributions towards the development of bilateral ties between

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. He has also been conferred with the decoration of Knight Commander of the Order of Queen Isabella by

Felipe VI Felipe VI (;, * eu, Felipe VI.a, * ca, Felip VI, * gl, Filipe VI, . Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain. He is the son of former King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía, and h ...

, the king of Spain for his contribution towards promoting relations between India and Spain.

References

External links

Confederation of Indian Industry

Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers

Institute of Economic Growth

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