Mr.

Kumar Mangalam Birla, born on June 14, 1967, Chartered Accountant is the Chairman
of the Aditya Birla Group. He serves on The Prime Minister of Indias Advisory Council on
Trade and Industry.
He was the Chairman of the Board of Trade constituted by the Ministry of Commerce &
Industry, and also Chairman of the Ministry of Company Affairs Advisory Committee. He
served as the Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of Indias Committee on
Corporate Governance, and as Chairman of SEBIs Committee on Insider Trading. He has
authored the nations First Report on Corporate Governance.
Mr. Birla is on the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), New Delhi
and the Advisory Council for the Centre for Corporate Governance. Mr. Birla is the
Chancellor of BITS, Pilani, Hyderabad, Goa and Dubai. He is a Director on the G. D. Birla
Medical Research and Education Foundation. He is on the Asian Regional Advisory Board of
the London Business School. He has been inducted on the Economic Times Corporate
Advisory Board.
Mr. Birla has been bestowed several national and international awards in recognition of his
contribution and services in the field of business and industry and other areas. Mr. Birla earned an
MBA from the London Business School, where he is also an Honorary Fellow.

Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla is the Chairman of multinational Aditya Birla

Group, which operates in 36 countries across six continents. 50 per cent of its
revenues flow from its operations outside India.
Mr. Birla chairs the Boards of the major Group companies in India and
globally. The global companies include Novelis, Columbian Chemicals, Aditya
Birla Minerals, Aditya Birla Chemicals, Thai Carbon Black, Alexandria Carbon
Black, Domsj Fabriker and Terrace Bay Pulp Mill, among others. In India, Mr.
Birla chairs the Boards of Hindalco, Grasim, Aditya Birla Nuvo, UltraTech, Idea,
Aditya Birla Financial Services and Aditya Birla Retail.
The Group's businesses are spread across a swath of industries. These
include aluminium, copper, cement, textiles (pulp, fibre, yarn, fabric and
branded apparel), carbon black, insulators, natural resources, power,
agribusiness, telecommunications, financial services, retail and trading.