Ratan Naval Tata
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Ratan Tata
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| Born |
28 December 1937 Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India |
| Residence | Colaba, Mumbai, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater |
Cornell University Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | Former chairman, Tata Group |
| Relatives | See Tata family |
| Awards |
Padma Vibhushan (2008) Padma Bhushan (2000) |
Ratan Naval Tata (born 28 December 1937) is an Indian industrialist, investor, philanthropist, and former chairman of Tata Sons. He was the former chairman of Tata Group, a Mumbai-based global business conglomerate from 1991 till 2012 and again from 24 October 2016 for an interim term, and continues to head its charitable trusts. He is the recipient of two of the highest civilian awards of India–Padma Vibhushan (2008) and Padma Bhushan (2000).
He is an alumnus of the Cathedral and John Connon School, Bishop Cotton School (Shimla), Riverdale Country School, Cornell University and Harvard Business School.
With a strong belief of giving wealth back to the people, Ratan Tata had given about 60-65% of the wealth that he has created from his companies back to people in the form of education, medicine and rural development, making him one of the biggest pursuers of a number of philanthropic endeavors.
Ratan Tata was born in a Parsi family and is the son of Naval Tata, who had been adopted from J. N. Petit Parsi Orphanage by Navajbai Tata. His parents Naval and Sonoo separated in 1948 when he was ten and his younger brother, Jimmy, was seven years old. Both he and his brother were raised by their grandmother Navajbai Tata. He has a half-brother Noel Tata from Naval Tata's second marriage to Simone Tata. His mother tongue is Gujarati.
He schooled in Mumbai and Shimla, at the Cathedral and John Connon School and Bishop Cotton School (Shimla). He graduated Riverdale Country School in 1955. He received a B. Arch. degree in architecture with structural engineering from Cornell University in 1962, and the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School in 1975.
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