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| Chair of the jury, Indra Nooyi, is chairman of PepsiCo. Indias power-puff poster girl regularly tops the worlds Most Powerful Women lists, up there with presidents and queens; last year, she was fifth on the Forbes list while Fortune has ranked her number one for two years in a row. Ms. Nooyis rise to the top of the global pecking order is well documented, and trend-setting in more ways than one. She brings to the jury not only her personal connect with India-more importantly, her involvement underlines how the lines between local and global corporates have blurred. |
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| Also at the head table will be Peter Sands, group chief executive of Standard Chartered, the UK-based but Asiafocused global banking major. About 90% of the profits of his company come from Asia, Africa and the Middle-East. Mr. Sands, an alumnus of McKinsey, is not only an Indophile-he even wants to be a PIO-StanCharts India focus has been unwavering in its 150-year association with the country. |
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