Kiran Karnik is a prominent Indian administrator chiefly known for his work in the broadcasting and outsourcing industries.
15 Facts About Kiran Karnik
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Kiran Karnik is the chairman, board of directors, of the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi.
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Kiran Karnik was born in 1947 in the Indian state of Maharashtra to Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu parents.
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Kiran Karnik joined the Indian Space Research Organisation shortly after it was set up in 1969 and spent nearly 20 years in the organisation.
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Kiran Karnik was part of the team that conceptualised the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment which won wide national and international acclaim, including the first UNESCO-IPDC Prize for rural Communication.
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Mr Kiran Karnik was Director of the ISRO's Development and Educational Communicational Unit from 1983 to 1991.
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Mr Kiran Karnik left the ISRO and joined the Consortium for Educational Communication as its first director in 1991.
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In 1995, Mr Kiran Karnik joined Discovery Networks as its managing director in India and oversaw the launch of Discovery Channel in South Asia in August 1995 followed by Animal Planet in 1999.
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Kiran Karnik took up the position of President of NASSCOM in September 2001, after the sudden demise of its founder Dewang Mehta.
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Kiran Karnik made the organisation into the preeminent association for the outsourcing industry and a prominent lobbying group for the concerns of the industry abroad.
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Kiran Karnik has been a member of many government committees, including the Prasar Bharati Review Committee, and is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and the National Innovation Council.
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Kiran Karnik is currently the Chairman of the 'Board of Governors' and member of the 'General Council' of the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi.
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Kiran Karnik is the Chairman of the Governing Body of HelpAge India, the leading non-profit organisation working for the Elderly across India.
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Kiran Karnik is the author of The Coalition of Competitors: The Story of Nasscom and the IT Industry [HarperCollins, 2012].
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Kiran Karnik is a regular columnist with national newspapers, including the Economic Times.