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Positions held:
Chairman, board of governors:
- Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
President:
- National Association of Software and Service Companies
(NASSCOM) from 1992 to 1994
Member:
- Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania's
Wharton School
- Cornell University Board of Trustees
- Singapore Management University Board of Trustees
- INSEAD's Board of Directors
- Asian Institute of Management's Board of Governors
Member, advisory boards and councils:
- William F Achtmeyer Centre for Global Leadership at the
Tuck School of Business
- Corporate Governance initiative at the Harvard Business
School Yale University President's Council on International
Activities
- Chairman, committee on corporate governance appointed
by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), 2003
Corporate governance initiatives in India:
- Independent director, board of the DBS Bank, Singapore's
largest government-owned bank
- Member, Asia Pacific Advisory Board of British Telecommunications
Plc
- Member, Board of New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV), India
- Director, Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India
- Member, Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry
- Member, Board of Directors of the United Nations Foundation
- IT advisor to several Asian countries
Awards and honours:
- Padma Shri from the government of India, in 2000
- Voted in December 2005 as the 7th most admired CEO / Chairman
in the world in a global study conducted by Burson-Marsteller
with the Economist Intelligence Unit. The list included
14 others with distinguished names such as Bill Gates, Steve
Jobs and Warren Buffet
- The Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia)
conferred an honorary doctorate on Murthy in 2005
- The Economist ranked him eighth on the list of
the 15 most admired global leaders (2005)
- He was ranked 28th among the world's most respected business
leaders by the Financial Times (2005)
- He topped The Economic Times Corporate Dossier
list of India's most powerful CEOs for two consecutive years
— 2004 and 2005
- He was named one of the ten leaders who are helping shape
the future of technology by Time magazine's ''Global
Tech Influentials'' list (August 2004)
- First recipient of the Indo-French Forum Medal (2003),
awarded by the Indo-French Forum in recognition of his role
in promoting Indo-French ties
- Voted the World Entrepreneur of the Year — 2003 by
Ernst and Young
- Named one of two people among Asia's Businessmen of the
Year for 2003 by Fortune magazine
- Named one of the 25 most influential global executives,
selected for their lasting influence in creating new industries
and reshaping markets in 2001 by Time / CNN
- Awarded Max Schmidheiny Liberty 2001 prize (Switzerland),
in recognition of his promotion of individual responsibility
and liberty
- Named one of their nine Entrepreneurs of the Year, in
1999 by BusinessWeek, featured in BusinessWeek's
'The Stars of Asia' for three successive years — 1998,
1999 and 2000
- Honorary doctorates from several well-known universities
in India
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