Kumar Mangalam Birla is an Indian industrialist and the Chairman of the Aditya Birla Group

Aditya Birla Group

The Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Mumbai, India. It operates in 33 countries with more than 133,000 employees worldwide...

, one of the largest conglomerate

Conglomerate (company)

A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate structure , usually involving a parent company and several subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company...

 corporations in India. He is also the Chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology & Science.

Education and career

Kumar Mangalam Birla is a fourth generation member of the Marwar

Marwar

Marwar is a region of southwestern Rajasthan state in western India. It lies partly in the Thar Desert. In Rajasthani dialect "wad" means a particular area. The word Marwar is derived from Sanskrit word 'Maruwat'. English translation of the word is 'The region of desert'., The Imperial Gazetteer...

i business Birla family

Birla family

The Birla family is one of the foremost business houses in India. The fore-father of the Birla family is Shiv Narain Birla, a member of the Marwari community from Pilani, in the westerly state of Rajasthan. He moved to Bombay around 1857 to establish a trading house. His son, Baldeodas Birla moved...

 from state of Rajasthan. A chartered accountant

Chartered Accountant

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 by profession,earned commerce degree from HR College of Commerce and Economics,Mumbai and also has an MBA from the London Business School

London Business School

London Business School is an international business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London, located in central London, beside Regent's Park...

, where he is an Honorary Fellow. He also has several honorary doctorate degrees.

Personal life

Birla is married to Neerja Birla. They have three children: Ananyashree, Aryaman Vikram and Advaitesha..

External links

• Kumar Mangalam Birla collected news and commentary at The Times of India
  The Times of India
  The Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. TOI has the largest circulation among all English-language newspaper in the world, across all formats . It is owned and managed by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd...