Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran Awarded Honorary Knighthood by the UK.
Awards
On February 14, 2025, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons Private Limited, was honored with the United Kingdom's "The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE)" under the reign of King Charles III for his outstanding contributions to UK-India business relations.
- The KBE/DBE is one of the highest honors conferred by the British Sovereign to civilians, recognizing the exceptional achievements of foreign nationals in various fields.
- The GBE (Knight or Dame Grand Cross) is the highest rank within the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In 2014, the late Ratan Tata, former Chairman of the Tata Group, became the only Indian to be awarded the GBE (Knight or Dame Grand Cross) since 1950.
Main Point :- (i) The "Knight Commander (KBE for men) or Dame Commander (DBE for women)" of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is the second-highest rank within the Order of the British Empire. In 2024, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises Limited, was conferred with the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE).
(ii) Other Indian recipients of the honorary KBE include the late Ratan Tata (2009), the late sitar virtuoso Pandit Ravi Shankar (2001), and the late Tata Steel veteran Jamshed Irani (1997), who were honored by the late Queen Elizabeth II.
(iii) Natarajan Chandrasekaran joined the Board of Tata Sons Private Limited in 2016 and became its Chairman in 2017. He also chairs the boards of key Tata Group companies, including Tata Steel Limited, Tata Motors Limited, Tata Power Limited, and Air India Limited. In 2023, he was awarded France's highest civilian honor, the 'Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur' (Knight of the Legion of Honour), and in 2022, he was honored with the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, in the field of Trade and Industry.
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