Vijay K Thadani

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	Vijay K Thadani CEO & Co- Founder, NIIT Limited

Mr. Vijay K. Thadani is the Chief Executive Officer of NIIT Ltd, a leading Global Talent Development Corporation. As the Co-founder of NIIT Group, he has built an organization that is recognised for its visionary role in bringing the benefits of Information Technology, both as a professional skill and as a learning tool, to the masses. Mr. Thadani led the Group's globalization efforts since 1991, taking the NIIT flag to over 40 countries. He serves on the Board of NIIT Technologies Limited, a leading SEI-CMMi Level 5 assessed IT Solutions organisation, servicing customers in the USA, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific, and India. Mr. Thadani has been actively engaged with many Industry Associations. The current Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Northern Region, Mr. Thadani has also served as President of the Indian IT industry association, MAIT; chaired the Indian Government's Committee on National Information Infrastructure and has been a member of the Strategy Council of Global Alliance for ICT and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA-GAID). He served as the Chairman of the IT Committee of CII in USA, as the Chairman of CII National Committee on Education, India. Mr. Thadani is the Co-founder of the not-for-profit, NIIT University established in 2009 with a vision of being the leading centre of innovation and learning in emerging areas of the Knowledge Society. He is also as a member of the India Advisory Board of the Maastricht University, Netherlands and serves as the Chairman of the National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET), which works under the aegis of the Quality Council of India. He was recently appointed as the Chairman of Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad. Mr. Thadani also serves on the India Advisory Board for Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Governing Council of All India Management Association (AIMA). A 'Distinguished Alumnus' of the premier Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Mr. Thadani was honored with the position of 'Economic Consultant' to Chongqing, world's largest city in the People's Republic of China.