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Ratan Tata
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(Redirected from Ratan TATA) Ratan Tata, KBE (Born Ratan Naval Tata on 28 December 1937) is an Indian businessman of the Tata Group, a Mumbai-based conglomerate. He was the chairman of the group from 1991-2012. He stepped down as the chairman on 28 December 2012 and now holds the position of Chairman Emeritus of the group which is an honorary and advisory position. He will continue as the chairman of the groups charitable trusts.[2]

Ratan N. Tata

Contents
1 Early life 2 Career 3 Honours and awards 4 References 5 External links
Born 28 December 1937 Surat, India Colaba, Mumbai, India[1] Indian Parsi

Early life
Tata is the adoptive great-grandson of Tata group founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata. His father, Naval Tata, had been adopted from the family of a distant relative by Jamsetji's childless younger son, also named Ratan Tata, and his wife Navajbai. Tata's parents (Naval and his first wife Sooni) separated in the mid-1940s when Ratan was seven and his younger brother Jimmy was five years old. Both he and his brother were raised by their grandmother Lady Navajbai.[3] Many years later, Naval Tata took a second wife, Simone, and fathered another son, Noel Tata. Tata began his schooling in Mumbai at the Campion School and the Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, and finished his secondary education at the Cathedral and John Connon School.[4] He completed his B.S. in architecture with structural engineering from Cornell University in 1962, and the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School in 1975.[5] Tata is a member of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.
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Residence Nationality Ethnicity

Alma mater Cornell University Occupation Religion Relatives Former Chairman of Tata Group Zoroastrianism Jamsetji Tata (Great Grandfather) Dorabji Tata (Grand-Uncle) Ratanji Tata (Grandfather) Naval Tata (father) JRD Tata (Grand-Uncle) Simone Tata (step mother) Noel Tata (half-brother) Awards Signature Padma Vibhushan (2008) KBE (2009)

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Career
Tata began his career in the Tata group in 1962; he initially worked on the shop floor of Tata Steel, shovelling limestone and handling the blast furnace.[6] In 1991, J. R. D. Tata stepped down as Tata Industries chairman, naming Ratan as his successor. In 1991, Tata was appointed as the chairman of the Tata group. Under his stewardship, Tata Tea acquired Tetley, Tata motors acquired Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Steel acquired Corus, which have turned Tata from a largely India-centric company into a global business, with 65% revenues coming from abroad. He also pushed the development of the Tata Indica and the Tata Nano Ratan Tata retired from all executive responsibility in the Tata group on December 28, 2012 which is also his 75th birthday and he is succeeded by Cyrus Mistry, the 44-year-old son of Pallonji Mistry and managing director of Shapoorji Pallonji Group.[7][8] He is chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, Tata Motors, Tata Steel and a few other group companies. He is also the chairman of the main two Tata trusts Sir Dorabji Tata and Allied Trusts and Sir Ratan Tata Trust which together hold 66% of shares in the group holding company Tata Sons. Ratan Tata has served in various capacities in organisations in India and abroad. He is a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry. Tata is on the board of governors of the East-West Center, the advisory board of R&D's Center for Asia Pacific Policy, the jury panel of Pritzker Architecture Prize - considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes[9] and serves on the program board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's India AIDS initiative.[10]

Honours and awards

Ratan Tata's foreign affiliations include membership of the international advisory boards of the Mitsubishi Corporation, the American International Group, JP Morgan Chase and Booz Allen Hamilton. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the RAND Corporation, University of Southern California and Cornell University.[11][12][13] He also serves as a board member on South Africa's International Investment Council and is a member of the Asia-Pacific advisory committee for the New York Stock Exchange. He received the Padma Bhushan in 2000 and Padma Vibhushan in 2008 and Lifetime Achievement Award awarded by Rockefeller Foundation in 2012. In 2009, Tata was given an honorary knighthood, the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (K.B.E.).[14][15]

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Year

Name

Awarding organization

Ref.

2013 Honorary Doctor of Business Practice 2013 Ernst and Young Enterprenuer of the Year - Lifetime Achievement

Carnegie Mellon University [16] (http://www.cmu.edu/commencement/keynote_honorees/index.html) Ernst & Young (http://www.ey.com/) The University of New South Wales (http://www.unsw.edu.au/) The Asian Awards. Pepperdine University. Yale University. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. University of Cambridge. Inspired Leadership Award Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. University of Warwick. Asian Institute of Technology.
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2012 Doctor of Business honoris causa 2010 Business Leader of the Year 2010 Honorary Doctor of Laws 2010 Legend in Leadership Award 2008 Honorary Doctor of Science 2008 Honorary Doctor of Science 2008 Honorary Doctor of Law 2008 Inspired Leadership Award 2007 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy 2005 Honorary Doctor of Science 2004 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Technology

References
1. ^ The amazing story of how Ratan Tata built an empire (http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/oct/20/slideshow-1-amazing-story-of-how-ratan-tata-built-an-empire.htm). Rediff (21 October 2010) 2. ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Ratan-Tata-is-chairman-emeritus-of-TataSons/articleshow/17671786.cms 3. ^ "Ratan Tata rode the tiger economy and now he drives Jaguar" (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personalview/3556736/Ratan-Tata-rode-the-tiger-economy-and-now-he-drives-Jaguar.html). The Daily Telegraph. 30 March 2008. Retrieved 31 March 2012. 4. ^ "Ratan Tata goes back to school" (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-0331/india/28031551_1_ratan-tata-nie-tata-group). Times of India. 31 March 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2012. 5. ^ Sharma, Subramaniam (2006-10-18). "India's Tata Takes Leap With $7.6 Billion Corus Bid (Update1)" (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aQkYaQuODjtU&refer=home). Bloomberg. Retrieved 2009-09-12. 6. ^ Chidanand Rajghatta (2007-12-30). "Times of India Article: Man of the Year? Its Ratan Tata" (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-12-30/india/27988332_1_ratan-tata-tata-steel-nelco). The Times of India. Retrieved 2011-02-23. 7. ^ "Cyrus P Mistry to succeed Ratan Tata" (http://www.timesnow.tv/videoshow/4389699.cms). Retrieved 23 November 2011. 8. ^ "Ratan Tata, India's Corporate Czar, Retires With a $500 Billion Vision" (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-03/ratan-tata-india-s-corporate-czar-retires-with-a-500-billionvision.html). Bloomberg. Retrieved 27 March 2013. 9. ^ "The Pritzker Architecture Prize Adds Two New Jurors" (http://www.pritzkerprize.com/sites/default/files/file_fields/field_files_inline/2013_juror_news-release.pdf). 10. ^ "Chairman Profile, Interviews and Press Articles" (http://indica.co.za/0_about_us/management/chairmans_chamber/media_articles_interviews.htm). Tata Group Website. 11. ^ Board of Trustees (http://www.usc.edu/about/administration/trustees/), University of Southern California, Accessed April 13, 2008.
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12. ^ Ratan Tata Joins USC Board of Trustees (http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/11551.html), USC News, August 30, 2005. 13. ^ Ratan Tata India's most powerful CEO, Mistry debuts at No. 15 The Times of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Ratan-Tata-Indias-most-powerful-CEO-Mistry-debutsat-No-15/articleshow/13470578.cms). Timesofindia.indiatimes.com (2012-05-25). Retrieved on 2012-12-27. 14. ^ "Ratan Tata gets Lifetime Achievement Award" (http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3576156.ece). The Hindu. June 27, 2012. Retrieved June 27, 2012. 15. ^ "LN Mittal, Ratan Tata, Narayana Murthy get Padma Vibhushan" (http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2008-01-26/news/27713021_1_padma-vibhushan-padma-awardssecond-highest-civilian-award). 26 January 2008. Retrieved 26 January 2008. 16. ^ "http://www.cmu.edu/commencement/keynote_honorees/index.html Carnegie Mellon University". 17. ^ "http://www.ey.com/ Ernst & Young". 18. ^ "UNSW Newsroom" (https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/general/indian-industrialist-ratan-tata-honorarydegree/). Indian industrialist Ratan Tata honorary degree. Retrieved 28 Nov 2012. 19. ^ "Winners of the Asian Awards 2010" (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-10-27/topstories/28220308_1_asian-awards-lifetime-achievement-award-sunil-mittal). Times of India. October 2010. 20. ^ "Pepperdine Confers Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree on Ratan N. Tata" (http://www.pepperdine.edu/pr/releases/2010/september/pepperdine-confers-honorary-degree.htm). Pepperdine University. September 2010. 21. ^ "Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute to Honor Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata with "Legend in Leadership Award"" (http://celi.som.yale.edu/news-events/in-the-news/10/10/271). Yale University. September 2010. 22. ^ "IIT Kharagpur confers doctorate on Ratan Tata" (http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2008-0319/news/28415749_1_doctorate-iit-kharagpur-honorary-degree). Economic Times. March 2008. 23. ^ "Ratan Tata gets smarter by a degree" (http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/20080809200808090229325327587018/Ratan-Tata-gets-smarter-by-adegree.html). Mumbai Mirror. August 2008. 24. ^ "University of Cambridge confers doctorate on Ratan Tata" (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/about/awardsannouncements-and-prizes/honorary-degrees/). University of Cambridge. March 2008. 25. ^ "Rajendra Pachauri and Ratan Tata guests of honour at Norwegian Creative Experience" (http://www.norwayemb.org.in/News_and_events/Bilateral-Relations/guest_of_honour_at_NCE/). Norwegian Embassy. November 2008. 26. ^ "Carnegie Medal for Philanthropy on Ratan Tata" (http://www.carnegiemedals.org/pastbios/2007medalist.html). Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. March 2007. 27. ^ "University of Warwick confers Honorary Doctor of Science on Ratan Tata" (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/ne1000000109101/). London School of Economics. March 2005. 28. ^ "Asian Institute of Technology confers doctorate on Ratan Tata" (http://www.asdu.ait.ac.th/NewsAndEvents/newsletterData/HTMLFormat/iss3no7/cover.htm). Asian Institute of Technology. March 2008.

External links
Ratan Naval Tata's chairman profile at Tata Group (http://www.tata.com/aboutus/articles/inside.aspx? artid=uBZjT+/ooH8=) Profile (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/28/automotive.mergersandacquisitions? INTCMP=SRCH) at The Guardian Ratan Tata (http://topics.wsj.com/person/T/ratan-naval-tata/506) collected news and commentary at The Wall Street Journal Ratan Naval Tata (http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/person.asp? personId=3734075&ticker=TTM:US) collected news and commentary at The Bloomberg Businessweek
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Ratan Naval Tata (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ratan-Tata) collected news and commentary at The Times of India Ratan Tata (http://www.nndb.com/people/335/000164840/) at the Notable Names Database "Ratan Tata '59: The Cornell Story" YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxnHEM0hQrk) Interview on Charlie Rose (http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12440) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ratan_Tata&oldid=591858932" Categories: Cornell University alumni Indian businesspeople Businesspeople in metals Tata family Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan Recipients of the Padma Bhushan 1937 births Living people Parsi people Harvard Business School alumni Indian Industrialists Recipients of the Maharashtra Bhushan Award Indian Zoroastrians Businesspeople in steel This page was last modified on 22 January 2014 at 12:07. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

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