Ranjit Shahani
Vice Chairman & Managing Director
Pharmaceutical
Novartis
India
Biography
Mr. Ranjit Shahani has been on the Board of the Company from November 1, 2002. He is a mechanical engineer from IIT Kanpur and MBA from JBIMS, Mumbai. He started his career with ICI in India in their businesses of fibres and specialty chemicals. Later, he rose to the position of General Manager with ICI/Zeneca in the U.K., overseeing their Asia Pacific and LatAm operations for their petrochemicals and plastics division. This was followed by a period as CEO at Roche Products Limited after which he moved to Novartis India Limited in 1997. Mr. Shahani was President of the Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India till 2013 and is President of the Swiss Indian Chamber of Commerce India.
Research Interest
Pharmaceutical Management
