Rajan Navani

RajanNavani is the Vice Chairman &Managing Director of the Indian arm of Jetline Group of companies and the CEO and Founder of JetSynthesys. With an aim to help India emerge as the Frugal Technology Innovation hub of the world, Rajan’s mission is to digitally connect India to the world and you to India.

Rajan is currently the Chairman of the CII National Council on India@75, the Past National Chairman of CIIs Young Indians and is a member of CII’s National Council. Rajan is a founding trustee of the India@75 Foundation which is working to help create an inclusive, developed India of 2022. He is a trustee of Aspen’s Ananta Centre in India, fellow of the Aspen India Leadership Initiative 2011–2012 and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He is also a BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation’s Young World Leader, a CNBC India’s Young Turk and part of the ASEAN 100 Leadership Forum. Rajan has also worked with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, USA before returning to Thailand and then to India to enter the family business.

Rajan is also playing an active role in helping shape the government and business US‐India partnership and is a member of the Singapore-India and Israel-India Track II strategic dialogues. He works closely with various stakeholders in the Indian ecosystem to see how India can emerge as the Frugal Technology Innovation Hub of the world. He is a board member of Indiaspora, a powerful network linking the Indian American Diaspora with India.