Subramaniam Ramadorai

Subramaniam Ramadorai is the Chairman of National Skill Development Agency & the National Skill Development Corporation, a Public Private partnership arm of the Government. Ramadorai has been in public service since February 2011. The NSDA is an autonomous body which coordinates and harmonizes the skill development efforts of the Government and the private sector to achieve the skilling targets of the nation. He is also Chairman of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), a Public Private Partnership arm of the Government of India for creating large, for-profit vocational institutions. In February 2011, the Government had appointed him as the Adviser to the Prime Minister in the National Council on Skill Development, in the rank of a Cabinet Minister. This Council was subsumed into the NSDA in June 2013. Recently, Subramaniam retired as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors at Tata Consultancy Services. Subramaniam has been associated with TCS for the past 36 years. Subramaniam took over as Chief Executive Officer of TCS in 1996 and has been instrumental in building TCS to a $5.7 Billion global IT services, business solutions and outsourcing company, with a talent base of over 1,16,000 people, geographical reach of 42 countries and an enviable client list which includes six of the top ten Fortune companies. Subramaniam set his sights on ensuring that TCS is among the Global Top Ten Software companies. In October 2006, TCS was recognized by the Economic Times as the company of the Year, a fitting tribute to its increasing global presence. Subramaniam's contributions to the industry have been well recognized through the numerous awards he has received. In 2002, Subramaniam was awarded with CNBC Asia Pacific's prestigious 'Asia Business Leader of the Year' Award. Subramaniam has been honoured with the position of "IT Advisor to Qingdao City', People's Republic of China. In November 2006, Ernst & Young awarded him with the prestigious 'Entrepreneur Manager of the Year' award. In the same year he was recognized by Computer Business Review in July 2006 as the sixth most influential IT leader in the world. In appreciation of his commitment and dedication to the IT industry, Subramaniam was also awarded the "Padma Bhushan" by the Government of India in January 2006. Subramaniam holds chairmanships and directorships of several Tata Group companies and is a Member of the Board of Directors at Hindustan Unilever Limited and Nicholas Piramal India Limited. Subramaniam is a Member of the Corporate Advisory Board, Marshall School of Business (USC) as well as the Said Business School at Oxford. Among his other distinctions, Subramaniam is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The Computer Society of India (CSI) and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Subramaniam holds a Bachelors degree in Physics from Delhi University, India, a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of California - UCLA, USA.