Leaders in India Business Forum is a part of the ‘Leaders’ series of business leadership events that are held in London, Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

 and Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi , literally Father of Gazelle, is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western...

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Leaders in India Business Forum, held annually in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, is the Indian chapter of the ‘Leaders’ series and attracts hundreds of senior executives and organisational heads from all industries. This forum serves as a gateway to and within the senior business community in India and strives towards a greater purpose of providing well researched, timely information on leadership issues covering many areas such as HR, change management, corporate governance, M&A, restructuring, technology, FDI, CSR and many others. The Leaders in India Business Forum is scheduled to run from the 8th to the 10 October 2009 in Mumbai.

Personalities including Kofi Annan

Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006...

, Sir Richard Branson, Al Gore

Al Gore

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....

, Philip Kotler

Philip Kotler

Philip Kotler is the S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.-Early life:He received his master's degree at the University of Chicago...

, Edward De Bono

Edward de Bono

Edward de Bono is a physician, author, inventor, and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote a best selling book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.- Biography :Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono was born to...

, Ricardo Semler

Ricardo Semler

Ricardo Semler is the CEO and majority owner of Semco SA, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering. Under his ownership, revenue has grown from US$4 million in 1982 to US$212 million in 2003 and his innovative business management...

, Stephen Covey

Stephen Covey

Stephen Richards Covey is the author of the best-selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Other books he has written include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families. In 2004, Covey released The 8th Habit...

, Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communication revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity....

, Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell, CM is a Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. He is currently based in New York City and has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996...

, C. K. Prahalad

C. K. Prahalad

Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M...

 and Daniel Pink are among other thought leaders, who have spoken at events in this series. Leaders in India Business forum is organised by Informa India, a part of the FTSE 250 parent company – Informa plc. Among the government supported organisations that actively support this forum are:

• UK India Business Council
• US India Business Council
• EU Chamber of Commerce
• Australia India Business Council

26/11 attacks

Originally, scheduled to run from 4-6 December 2008, at the Trident hotel, the first edition of the Leaders in India Business Forum was postponed due to the unfortunate 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks at the same hotel just one week before the planned event. Donald Trump Jr., Steve Forbes

Steve Forbes

Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes, Jr. is an American editor, publisher, and businessman. He is the editor-in-chief of business magazine Forbes as well as president and chief executive officer of its publisher, Forbes Inc. He was a Republican candidate in the U.S. Presidential primaries in 1996...

, Tom Peters

Tom Peters

Thomas J. "Tom" Peters is an American writer on business management practices, best-known for In Search of Excellence .-Life and career:Peters was born in Baltimore, Maryland...

, Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala...

, Adi Godrej

Adi Godrej

Adi Godrej is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. , he is one of the richest Indians with net worth of US$7.3 billion. He is 130 on Forbes List of Billionaires. Also He is the second richest person of Parsi descent in the world after Pallonji Mistry.-Career:Godrej received his...

, Kamal Nath

Kamal Nath

Kamal Nath is an Indian politician and the current Union Cabinet Minister of Urban Development. He is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Chhindwara constituency of Madhya Pradesh and is a member of the Indian National Congress .-Early life:Born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He...

and many others featured on the list of confirmed 'celebrity' speakers that were due to speak at this event.

External links

• Website of Leaders in India
• Press Release by Leaders in India