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Today Narayana is the Chairman of the governing body of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore and a member of boards including the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Cornell, Stanford, Yale, INSEAD, University of Tokyo and the Asian Institute of Management.
His directorships include DBS Bank, the Asia Pacific Advisory Board of British Telecommunications plc and New Delhi Television Ltd. He serves as a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Foundation.
Narayana has received numerous awards and honours. The Economist ranked him 8th in the list of the top 15 most admired global leaders in 2005. The same year, the Financial Times ranked him 28th among the world's most-respected business leaders. In 2006, TIME magazine recognised him as an 'Asian hero' who has brought about revolutionary changes in the continent in the last 60 years. He has been conferred honorary doctorates by several well-known universities in India and abroad.
Narayana was born in 1946. He holds a BE from the University of Mysore and a Masters of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. | 