Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises, has been elected as the Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
He is the third Indian business leader to hold this position in ICC’s near 100-year history. He takes over from Terry McGraw, Chairman Emeritus of S&P Global, who will subsequently become ICC’s Honorary Chairman.
The ICC World Council elected the new leaders at a voting held in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Founded in 1919, ICC is the world’s largest business organisation which represents private sector views to national governments and intergovernmental bodies around the world.
Sunil Bharti Mittal serves on many international bodies and think-tanks.
He is currently the Chair of the World Economic Forums (WEF) Telecommunications Steering Committee; Member: International Business Council-WEF, GSMA Board, Telecom Board of International Telecommunication Union (ITU); and Commissioner of the Broadband Commission, International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Prime Minister of Singapore’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council.
He is also a Trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and on the Board of Qatar Foundation Endowment.
He has served on the Prime Minister of India’s Council on Trade & Industry. He is also a member of the India-US, India-UK and India-Japan CEO Forums.
He is Co-Chair of the India-Africa Business Council and India-Sri Lanka CEO Forum.
He was the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the premier industry body in India in 2007-08.
