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Dr. Ramesh Mashelkar is presently the CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow at the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL). He is also the President of the Global Research Alliance, a network of publicly funded R&D institutes from Asia-Pacific, Europe and USA with over 60,000 scientists.

Dr. Mashelkar served as the Director General of India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), withÌý38 laboratories and about 20,000 employees for over 11 years. He was also the President of the Indian National Science Academy and President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK).

Deeply connected with the innovation movement in India, Dr Mashelkar is currently the Chairman of India’s National Innovation Foundation, Reliance Innovation Council, Thermax Innovation Council and Marico Innovation Foundation.

He is known for his scholarship in polymer science and engineering. His contributions in the field of gel science, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and polymer reaction engineering have won him many laurels.

He has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the US National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and also Fellow of the World Academy of Arts & Science. 28 universities have honoured him with honorary doctorates, including the universities of London, Salford, Pretoria andÌýWisconsin

HeÌýis an independent Director on several of India’s leading companies,Ìýincluding Reliance, Tata Motors andÌýHindustan Unilever. He has been a member of the Science Academy Council to the Indian Prime Minister for more than two decades.

Dr. Mashelkar is well-known for transforming institutions. As a Director of the National Chemical Laboratory, he changed its culture from import substitution-based applied research to frontier research, leading to international patents resulting in the export of NCL’s technologies to major chemical manufacturers in US and Europe, a first for India.

As the Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Dr. Mashelkar made the organization user-focused and performance driven. This transformation has been hailed by many as being among the top 10 achievements of Indian Science & Technology in the 20th century.

In the post-liberalised India, Dr. Mashelkar has played a critical role in shaping India’s science, technology and innovation policies.

̽»¨Ö±²¥President of India honoured Dr. Mashelkar with Padmashri (1991) and with Padmabhushan (2000), which are two of the highest civilian honours, in recognition of his contribution to nation-building.

̽»¨Ö±²¥CIGB BP Lecture on Monday is entitled ‘Indian Science, Technology and Innovation: ̽»¨Ö±²¥Changing Landscape’.

Dr Mashelkar will discuss how India has emerged, post -1991 liberalisation, as a global R&D hub with more than 700 major global companies setting up their R&D centres in the country, and how this, coupled with Indian enterprises shifting from imitation to innovation, has triggered the reversal of the brain drain.

̽»¨Ö±²¥lecture willÌýargue how the incessant quest for truly inclusive growth is leading to India becoming a global leader in 'inclusive innovation'.

A welcome will be given by Judge Business School Director Arnoud De Meyer, with opening remarks by BP Group Vice-President David Eyton and an introduction by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥'s ÌýPro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Professor Lynn Gladden.

Judge Business School is extremely grateful to the BP Foundation for its core support of ̽»¨Ö±²¥Centre for India & Global Business.

̽»¨Ö±²¥BP Inaugural lecture will take place in Room LT3 on Monday 21 June, starting at 6.30pm. A limited number of places is still available.

Please email l.bello@jbs.cam.ac.uk to check availability and reserve a seat.
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