M. S. Banga

Banga worked for Unilever for 33 years. He served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Hindustan Lever Ltd.. In February 2005, as part of a major reorganization of Unilever's upper management, Banga was elevated to the Unilever Executive, as the global head of the Foods division and ultimately took over the HPC division as well - effectively running all of Unilever’s categories across the globe. He was also responsible for their sustainability imitative.

Banga is currently a non-executive director on the Boards of Glaxo Smith Kline Plc, Thomson Reuters, and Marks & Spencer. He is also on the Board of the Confederation of British Industry. He is a Senior Partner at one of the world's oldest and leading private equity firms, Clayton Dubilier & Rice. He served on the Prime Minister of India's Council for Trade & Industry from 2004 to 2014. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2010.

Banga graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1975 and did BTech degree in Mechanical Engineering. He earned a master in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM-A).

Banga was born on 31 October 1954 in Simla (then in the state of Punjab) into a Sikh family, the son of Lt.Gen. Harbhajan Singh Banga, a decorated General in the Indian Army, and his wife Jaswant Kaur.