Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is a biotech entrepreneur, health care visionary, global influencer and passionate philanthropist.
Why you should listen
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is a biotech industry pioneer and founder of Biocon, an innovation-led global biopharmaceutical company. She is the proud recipient of two of India's highest civilian honors: the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. She has been conferred with the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 Award. She has also been appointed the vice chair of the US-India Business Council in 2021. Mazumdar-Shaw has many other international accolades to her credit, including Australia's highest civilian honor, the Order of Australia, awarded in 2020, as well as the Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2016 and Othmer Gold Award 2014. She serves on the boards of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), PureTech Health, Infosys and Narayana Health.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s TED Talk
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Simone Ross
The global cooperation that accelerated the COVID-19 vaccines
14 minutes 10 seconds(This virtual conversation, hosted by TED technology curator Simone Ross, was recorded March 12, 2021.) Biotech entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw shares lessons learned from the global effort to develop COVID-19 vaccines: namely, the power of collaboration and the importance of equitable access to health care. Learn more about the innovative partnerships that helped create the vaccines -- and how India became a crucial player in the supply chain delivering millions of doses to the world.Posted Apr 2021
