Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the executive chairperson of Biocon, a major Indian producer of pharmaceutical ingredients, generics, and biosimilars. Mazumdar-Shaw founded the company in 1978 in the garage of her rented house. A year later, it became the first Indian firm to export plant enzymes to Europe and the U.S. Biocon generated $1.9 billion in revenue, a 35% gain year on year, in fiscal 2024.