Chandrajit Banerjee

Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) International Organizations and Other Institutions

Chandrajit Banerjee is the Director General of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Mr Banerjee has been with the CII for about 3 decades and has been the Director General, CII since May 2008.

Mr Banerjee is a Post-Graduate (MS) in Economics with specialisation on Economics of Planning and Econometrics from the University of Calcutta. Earlier, he did his Graduation from St. Xavier's College (Calcutta) in Economics (Hons).

As Director General, he is responsible for overall operations of CII. Prior to his appointment as Director General, he held several senior positions in CII.  He was also in Bangalore to initiate the Centre of Excellence of the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association, which is a state-of-the-art centre for training, conventions and trade fairs.

He is an advisory Board Member of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council and Member of Board of the Global Innovation and Technology Alliance. He is a Director in the Singapore India Partnership Foundation, the Managing Trustee of the National Foundation for Corporate Governance and a Director at the Invest India.

Mr Banerjee has been honored with the China-India Friendship Award by the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for his contributions towards the development of bilateral ties between India and China. He has also been conferred with the decoration of Knight Commander of the Order of Queen Isabella by His Majesty the King of Spain in recognition of his meritorious achievements and exceptional contributions towards promoting relations between India and Spain.