Shiv Khemka

Shiv Khemka is Vice-Chairman of SUN Group, a 120-year-old family enterprise comprised of both operating and investment companies. SUN Group is active in Asset Management, Natural Resources, Green Infrastructure, and High Technology. The group has been active in various regions around the world, including India, Latin America, West Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Central and South-East Asia, Japan, and China.

Shiv is Chairman of the Indian representation to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Business Council, a member of the BRICS Business Council and member of the Russian Prime Minister’s Foreign Investment Advisory Council. He also sits on the National and International Councils of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and is also a member of the Young Presidents Organisation’s Inter-Continental (YPO-IC) chapter.

He served on the Board of Overseers of the Wharton School for over a decade and is currently on the board of the Lauder Institute and the Centre for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania. Shiv serves on Yale University’s President’s Council on International Activities and the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Global Council. He has also been a member of the President’s Leadership Council at Brown University and the advisory board of Stanford University’s Philanthropy and Civil Society Centre.

Shiv is Chairman of the Global Education & Leadership Foundation (tGELF), an education initiative committed to nurturing young leadership potential around the world, which today reaches over 3 million young people across 14 countries. He is also Chairman of the Aikido Aikikai Foundation of India, serves on the Board of Governors of Junior Achievement Worldwide and is a Trustee of the Foundation Leadership Council at United World College (South East Asia).

Shiv studied at Eton College, earned a BA in economics from Brown, an MBA/MA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business and the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.