Kumar Mangalam Birla joins BITS as new Chancellor
New Delhi: Kumar Mangalam Birla, leading industrialist and Chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, has been elected the new Chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS).The decision was taken in a meeting of the Board of Governors of the institute held at Birla House in the capital. He succeeds K.K. Birla who recently passed away. Kumar Mangalam Birla holds several key positions on various regulatory and professional boards.He has served as the chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India's Committee on Corporate Governance, and as chairman of SEBI's committee on insider trading. He has also been playing a stellar role on the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII); the Apex Advisory Council of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, New Delhi and the Advisory Council for the Centre for Corporate Governance. Holder of Honorary Doctorates conferred by various universities and winner of several coveted awards for ...