Karan Bilimoria

The Right Honourable The Lord Bilimoria CBE DL FCA
Bilimoria at the Horasis Global India Business Meeting in 2012
Chancellor of the University of Birmingham
Incumbent
Assumed office 2014
Preceded by	Sir Dominic Cadbury
Chairman of Cobra Beer
Incumbent
Assumed office 2007
Chancellor of Thames Valley University
In office 2005–2010
Succeeded by	Laurence S. Geller
Chief Executive Officer of Cobra Beer
In office 1989–2007
Personal details
Born	Karan Faridoon Bilimoria (1961-11-26) 26 November 1961 (age 55) Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Lynne Heather Bilimoria
Children	Four
Parents	Lt. General Faridoon N. Bilimoria and Yasmin Bilimoria
Residence	London, UK
Alma mater	Osmania University City of London Polytechnic Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Known for	Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer
Religion	Zoroastrianism

Karan Faridoon Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria,CBE, DL, FCA (born 26 November 1961) is a British Indian entrepreneur and a life peer. He is best known as one of the two founders and chairman of Cobra Beer.

Karan Bilimoria was born in Hyderabad, India into a Zoroastrian Parsi family that has a background in the armed forces and business. His father, Lt. General Faridoon Noshire Bilimoria PVSM (1933–2005), popularly known as 'General Billy', was the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Central Army Command of the Indian Army, who had also served as ADC to the first Indian President, Rajendra Prasad, and commanded the 2/5 Gorkha Rifles during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Lt. General Bilimoria, while General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Central Indian Army, was also sent by the Government of India to Sri Lanka in 1990 to review the work of the Indian Peace Keeping Force which had been deployed in that country during the Sri Lankan Civil War under the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, and it was on his recommendations that the force was recalled in 1990, ending India's military engagement with the LTTE.