Dheeraj Hinduja

British-Indian businessman (born 1971)

  • Gopichand Hinduja (father)

Dheeraj Gopichand Hinduja (born August 1971) is a British-Indian businessman, the chairman of Ashok Leyland since October 2010.

Early life

Dheeraj Hinduja was born in Iran[1] in August 1971,[2] the son of Gopichand Hinduja. The Hinduja family is of Sindhi heritage.[3]

He received a bachelor's degree from University College London in 1993, and an MBA from Imperial College London in 1994.[4][5]

Personal life

He married Shalini Chandiramani, a fellow student at Imperial College, and the daughter of a Morocco-based film distributor, some time before 1996.[6] As of 2005, they had two children, Vedika and Vedant.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Take A Look At Me Now". Articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Dheeraj HINDUJA - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  3. ^ Palijo, Waseem (8 January 2019). "Most billionaires in India today once resided in Pakistan's Sindh". Daily Times. Archived from the original on 7 May 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Stocks". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  5. ^ "Dheeraj G. Hinduja". Ashokleyland.com\accessdate=11 June 2016.
  6. ^ "This is Dynasty, Indian-style". Independent.co.uk. 12 January 1996. Retrieved 11 June 2016.