Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur. She is the executive chairperson and founder of Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India and the former chairperson of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. In 2014, she was awarded the Othmer Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to the progress of science and chemistry. She was on the
Financial Times 2011 top 50 women in business list. In 2019, she was listed as the 68th most powerful woman in the world by
Forbes. She was named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020. She is married to John Shaw.