J.B. Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Appoints Arun Duggal as Independent Director

J.B. Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited appointed Arun Duggal as a Non-Executive Independent Director for five years, with effect from July 5, 2024.

Arun Duggal had a 26-year career with Bank of America, mostly in New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Japan. He is the founder of the Arun Duggal Centre of Excellence for Research in Climate Change and Air Pollution at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is also the co-founder of the Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence (ScAI) at IIT Delhi. He is the founder of the Centre of ESG Research (CESGR) at IIM, Ahmedabad. He was also the Co-Chairman of the Indian Institute of Technology Endowment Fund. The IITD Endowment Fund is India’s first alumni endowment fund by an educational institute. He is a trustee of the Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI). He is the founder of the Women on Corporate Boards programme in India. He is the Non-Executive Chairman of ICRA (a subsidiary of Moody’s USA). He is on the Board of Directors of ITC and the Lead Independent Director of Dr. Lal PathLabs. He has also been Chairman and on the Board of other companies in India, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, London, and South Africa. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award). He has done mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.