Ambassador AJIT KUMAR
Resident Director- Corporate Affairs
HINDUJA GROUP LTD
India
Industry / Sector
Defence, Financial Services, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Information and Communication Technology, Manufacturing, Power & Energy
Personal Profile
BRIEF PROFILE OF AMBASSADOR AJIT KUMAR
Ajit Kumar, a post graduate from St. Stephen’s College, has served as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to United Nations Offices and other International Organizations in Geneva, Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Consul General in Durban, Frankfurt, and Atlanta.
Joining the Indian Foreign Service in 1979, has held posts in Damascus, Mexico City, Islamabad and New Delhi, he was deputy leader of the Indian delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and participated in multilateral negotiations on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
He had served as Director and Joint Secretary in the Disarmament and International Security Affairs (D&ISA) Division in MEA and became Secretary in 2014. He has attended several sessions of the UNDC & UN First Committee on D&ISA issues in New York and several international conferences.
In all his postings, he has promoted economic and cultural diplomacy - also interacted and assisted the Indian diaspora. As Ambassador & PR to UN in Geneva, he engaged with 18 multilateral organizations, including UN Specialized Agencies, on issues like human rights, humanitarian issues, health, labour etc.
India-saudi arabia bilateral relations
• India and Saudi Arabia enjoy cordial and friendly relation reflecting the centuries old economic and socio-cultural time.
• Highly successful visits of PM Modi in April 2016 & 2019 have led to enhanced cooperation in the political, economic, security & defense realm. The conferring of highest civilian honour on PM Modi by the Saudi King is an indication of the importance the Kingdom attaches to its relations with India.
• Also the visit of the Crown Prince HRH Md. Bin Salman to India in February 2019 coupled with landmark visit of PM Modo to KSA marked a new and strong chapter in the bilateral relation which culminated in setting of the Strategic Partnership Council chaired by the two leaders.
Company Profile
THE HINDUJA GROUP The Hinduja Group is one of India’s premier diversified and transnational conglomerates. Employing about 200,000 employees, it is actively present in over 100 countries, with a direct presence across 38 countries. The Group was founded over a century ago by Shri P.D. Hinduja whose credo was "My duty is to work so that I can give” with philanthropy being the core existential reason for doing business as against the conventional wisdom of making profits. Today the Group is managed by 4 Hinduja Brothers, and they are ably supported by members of the next generation. Invested globally in 11 business verticals that range from Industrial Manufacturing to Information Technology Enabled Services, it has a multi-billion dollar turnover. In these business verticals, it enjoys a flagship presence through investments in leading companies, some of which are global or national icons. The Hinduja Group looks at Africa as one of global importance because it believes the next wave of global economic surge will be led by Africa. For more information visit www.hindujagroup.com A brief snapshot of its key investments across some of its verticals is as follows: • Mobility Sector- Ashok Leyland Ltd – India’s 2nd largest commercial vehicle and world’s 4th largest Bus manufacturer. It exports products to over 50 countries and has a manufacturing base in 5 countries in the Indian Sub-continent, Middle East, and Africa (where it has assembly plants). Ashok Leyland is the largest mobility supplier to the Indian Defence Forces. Its subsidiary, Switch Mobility, is a technology leader in Electric Vehicles. Already, hundreds of Switch vehicles have clocked millions of kilometres across the globe. Africa is one of the leading export markets for Ashok Leyland. • Lubricants & Specialty Chemicals Sector–Gulf Oil Lubricants is one of the top 10 lubricant companies in the world. The Group, through Gulf Oil, is the single largest shareholder in the NYSE listed Quaker Houghton – the global leader in metalworking fluids. • Banking and Financial Services Sector: The Hinduja Family along with global investors from the Indian diaspora, conceived of a platform that promoted a new generation Bank in India in 1994, the Indusind Bank- which today is one of the fastest-growing and highly decorated, mid-sized Bank. Also, the Group is invested in an NBFC, Hinduja Leyland Finance which specializes in Vehicle Finance and Home Loan space and will soon foray into Insurance Broking. • IT/ITeS Sector – Hinduja Global Solutions, with its global operations, is one of the leading players in the Customer Experience Management space catering to the Fortune 500 clients across multiple sectors. Hinduja Technologies is the integrated product engineering and digital technologies arm known for creating disruptive transformations with respect to cost, quality, and time for its global automotive clients. Also, the Hinduja Group has picked up a significant stake in a Swiss-based Company, Mindmaze which specializes in using Virtual Reality for faster rehabilitation of Neurological patients • Renewable Energy Sector – the Hinduja Group is focused to expand its Renewable/ Alternative Energy Space- from