The Economic Times India Leadership Council: Transforming the vision of India’s business Community

NEW DELHI: With a strong belief that great things happen when brilliant minds converge, The Economic Times has recently instituted the India Leadership Council (ILC).

This is envisaged as an exclusive peer group platform working towards the end goal of bringing change in the country’s business environment.

The Economic Times India Leadership Council is an exclusive membership-based networking platform, with access only to senior corporate leaders from across industries and geographies.


It aims to bring together the country’s top business leaders, resulting in face to face meetings, alliances and germination of new ideas. Additionally, the India Leadership Council aims to build the leadership quotient in the country through regular mentorship sessions and workshops with top Indian business leaders. The India Leadership Council will have an Advisory Board which will guide the Council.

The Advisory Board will define an annual agenda for action and identify some macro issues pertaining to the development of the Indian industry, for example innovation, capacity building, digitalisation, IPR, etc.

Once agenda points are identified, consultants may be engaged in preparing reports and expert speakers willspeak in seminars and conferences which will help members design effective strategies.

This will help the Council in filling the lacunas that have hindered the country’s progress and help bridge gaps as necessary.

Commenting on the need for such a platform, Vineet Jain, managing director, BCCL, said, “The Economic Times has always championed the cause of catalysing India’s economic and business growth. As a value proposition to the country, the Council will facilitate the building of “Businesses”, “Leaders” and “Relationships” not confined to just business.”

Anand Mahindra, a member of the ILC advisory board, said, “I believe that the India Leadership Council fills in a clear void in Corporate India by providing a platform to build true ‘leaders’ in the business world. Transformation is accomplished not just by processes, technology and products but by visionary leaders. And mentorship has a huge role to play in developing the leaders of tomorrow. In the digital era.”

Other eminent leaders who are part of the ILC’s advisory board are N Chandrasekaran, Deepak Parekh, Aditya Puri, Ajay Piramal, Narayana Murthy, Venu Srinivasan, Harsh Mariwala, Amit Agarwal, Janmejaya Sinha, R Seshasayee and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw.