“When you take the best of universities in the world, all of them have research and education contiguous; the person who teaches you could be a Nobel laureate. Some subjects are at the tri-junction of many subjects put together.”

Indian businessman and philanthropist

Shiv Nadar is an Indian businessman and philanthropist known for founding HCL Technologies. Born in India, he built HCL in 1976 and later led its shift from an IT hardware company into a wider technology enterprise. He is also the chairman of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Over the following decades, Nadar became closely associated with the growth of India’s technology sector through HCL. His work spans business leadership and philanthropy, with his public profile shaped by both the company he founded and the foundation he leads.