Sunil Kant Munjal

Sunil Kant Munjal is a second-generation member of the family that founded the Hero Group, India’s premier automotive manufacturing group that has evolved from being the world’s largest bicycle-maker to the largest two-wheeler maker. He is now the Chairman of Hero Enterprise, with interests in insurance distribution, steel-making, real estate, corporate training and an active Investment Office. The Investment Office has made strategic investments in several areas ranging from e-commerce to hospitality. He also supports start-ups and mature businesses in digital learning, transportation, healthcare, women empowerment, education, financial services, consumer facing businesses, etc. The Investment Office runs a portfolio of structured debt, public market investments and private equity investments in India and for global markets.

He sits on the boards of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), Indian School of Business (ISB) which is a leading Business School in India, Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), India’s leading College for Commerce and also University of Tokyo. He is also on the board of trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has co-founded BML Munjal University (BMU) and is President of Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana. He has also served as President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), All India Management Association (AIMA) and has headed the Doon School governing body for five years; been a member of Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry and was on government taskforces that prepared the ground for India’s banking, financial services and taxation reforms. He was also part of the Labour Reforms Commission and has Chaired the Report for Skills, Training & Workers Education and a few others.

Mr Munjal has set up the Serendipity Arts Foundation which aims to revive patronage in the arts and make all art-forms accessible to people through a large multi-disciplinary Arts Festival and various other means. He is also the President of the Ludhiana Sanskritik Samagam which supports performing arts across North India. He has also chronicled the incredible saga of Hero's founders in a book- The Making of Hero, which featured amongst India's prominent bestsellers for several months and recently won the Business Book of the Year Award at Tata Literature Live! Festival 2020.