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Shobhana Bhartia

Shobhana Bhartia

Shobhana Bhartia

Shobhana Bhartia was born in 1957 and schooled at Loreto House, Calcutta (now Kolkata). She pursued her Bachelor’s Degree from University of Calcutta. She is the daughter of the late industrialist and billionaire Krishna Kuma Birla and grand-daughter of G.D. Birla.  She is married to Shyam Sundar Bhartia, Chairman of the pharmaceutical firm Jubilant Life Science Limited.

In 1986, Shobhana Bhartia joined Hindustan times as Chief Executive. She was the first woman chief executive of a national newspaper. She looks after editorial as well as financial aspects, and is credited with raising Rs. 400 crore through a public equity launch of HT Media in September 2005.

Bhartia serves as Director of many companies: Britex (India) Limted, Nilgiri Plantations Limited, Ronson Traders Limited, Yashovardhan Investment & Trading Company Limited, Udit India Limited, Usha Flowell Limited, Goldmerry Investment & Trading Company Limited and Firefly e-Ventures Limited.

From the year 2005 to 2011, she served as Director of Hero MotoCorp Limited.  She is a former Director of the Press Trust of India Limited. She was a Member of the upper house Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) for a year in 2006 where She introduced “The Child Marriage (Abolition) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill, 2006. She has also recently taken charge as the Pro Chancellor of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (founded by her grandfather) and is the current Chairperson of Endeavor India. She has been on the board of Indian Airlines Limited and on the North Regional Board of the Reserve Bank of India.

In 1992, the ‘National Press India Award’ was given to Shobhana Bhartia.  She was selected for the ‘Global Leader of Tomorrow’ award by the World Economic Forum in 1996. She is a recipient of Padma Shri for excellence in journalism by the Government of India in 2005. She has been awarded the ‘Business Woman of the Year 2007’ by Economic Times. She was named among the Forbes Asia’s 50 Women in the Mix, in the year 2013. In the year 2013, she received the ‘Media Person of the Year’ award.

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