Ravi Kant

Ravi Kant has nearly fifty years of corporate experience across industries. He spent fifteen years at Tata Motors, where he was the CEO and managing director and later vice chairman of the board.

Prior to Tata Motors, he was a director, consumer electronics and on the board of Philips India. He has also worked in senior positions at LML Ltd, Titan Watches, Kinetic Engineering, Hawkins and Hindustan Aluminium.

He is currently on the board of Kone Ltd, Helsinki, one of the top elevator companies in the world, and Hawkins Cookers Ltd, a well-known consumer durable company. He is also the chairman, advisory board of Akhand Jyoti and is associated with two start-ups in the cancer field (Karkinos, India and MedTherapy, USA).

Ravi studied at Mayo College Ajmer, did BTech Hons at IIT, Kharagpur, and M.Sc. in management techniques in industry from Aston University, Birmingham, UK. He was an industrial professor at the University of Warwick, UK, and a distinguished professor at IIT Kharagpur. He was the chairman of IIM Rohtak, IIIT Allahabad and has been associated with NID Ahmedabad and business schools at IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, NUS Singapore and CEIBS, Shanghai.