Dr. Arun Chandavarkar
Non-Executive, Non-Independent Director
Member of the Board of Directors since 2016
Year of birth: 1961
Nationality: India
Professional Experience
- Managing Director of Biocon Biologics Ltd. from January 2021 to December 2022
- CEO and Jt. Managing Director of Biocon Ltd. from April 2014 to November 2019
- Served as a part of the core team that led Biocon’s growth and strategy focused on improving access to high quality, affordable biopharmaceuticals and specialty medicines in chronic therapies such as diabetes, oncology and immunology.
- Under his leadership, Biocon has made significant investments in cutting-edge R&D and efficient, compliant operations that translated into a unique and differentiated product portfolio straddling fermentation-derived complex generics, biosimilars and novel biologics, all aimed at a worldwide patient population.
- Served as Chairperson of the National Committee on Biotechnology of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2016-17.
Education
- B Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
- Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
