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Kishor Chaukar is a Member of the Board of Directors at Tata Communications Ltd.

Kishor retired in August 2012, from being the Managing Director of Tata Industries Limited (TIL). TIL is the smaller of the two principal holding companies of the Tata Group, India’s largest and the best-known conglomerate. TIL acts as the new projects-promotion arm of the Group, and spearheads the entry of the Group in the emerging, high-tech and sunrise sectors of the economy. While at TIL, Kishor was also a Member of the Group Corporate Centre, which is engaged in strategy formation at the House of Tata.

Kishor chaired for several years the Tata Council for Community Initiatives (TCCI) – the nodal forum of the Group on matters related to Corporate Sustainability, and was a member of the Board and Advisory Board of some national and international organisations in the Corporate Sustainability and Human Rights space.

Kishor is a Member of the Boards of several Tata Companies and the Chairman of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd. and Tata Business Support Services.

Kishor is a Trustee of BAIF Development Research Foundation.

Prior to joining Tata, Kishor was the Managing Director of ICICI Securities & Finance Company Limited (July 1993 to October 1998) and a Member of the Board of Directors of ICICI Limited (from February 9, 1995 to October 15, 1998). During 1975-85, he served as Executive Secretary of Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation, an NGO engaged in extending relevant technology into rural India for generating economically remunerative employment.

Kishor holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Karnataka University and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Kishor also holds a DEA in Rural Economics from the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France.