Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw as Indian entrepreneur and founder of Biocon (born 1953).
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw was born at Bengaluru in 1953. Her recorded nationality is India. She was educated at Bishop Cotton Girls' School and Mount Carmel University.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is described as brewmaster, business executive and entrepreneur.
Her affiliations include Biocon.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Her work was formally recognised with the Othmer Gold Medal, Nikkei Asia Prize and honorary doctorate.
Working from India shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Affiliated with Biocon
- Educated at Bishop Cotton Girls' School, Mount Carmel University and Bangalore University
- Worked as brewmaster, business executive and entrepreneur
