Nikhil Nanda is the Joint Managing Director of Escorts Group

Escorts group

The Escorts Group1 is one of the highly diversified engineering conglomerates located in Faridabad, Haryana, India. Its turnover is US$461.9 Million per annum.-Tractors:...

, which specializes in agri-machinery, construction & material handling equipment, railway equipment and auto components.

Early life and education

He is the son of industrialist Rajan Nanda, the chairman of Escorts Group, and Ritu Kapoor-Nanda, the single largest Insurance Agent in India, and the grandson of actor-director Raj Kapoor

Raj Kapoor

Known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor Rāj Kapūr, 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards, while his films Awaara and Boot Polish were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the...

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Nanda completed his schooling from Doon School and afterwards studied at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton was the world’s first collegiate business school and the first business school in the United States...

, USA from where he majored in Finance and Management.

Career

He was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of five 'Indians who are global leaders of tomorrow in 2001.

Personal life

Nikhil Nanda married Shweta Nanda, daughter of film actors Amitabh

Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

 and Jaya Bachchan

Jaya Bachchan

Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan is an Indian actress and politician. She is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Bachchan is the wife of Amitabh Bachchan, and is the mother of Shweta Bachchan-Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan...

, on 16 February 1997. They have two children, Navya Naveli and Agastya. He is the brother-in-law of the Bollywood actors Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan is an Indian actor and producer. He is the son of Indian actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan and is married to actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai....

 and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

For fitness, he and his wife Shweta Nanda practice Krav Maga

Krav Maga

Krav Maga is a noncompetitive eclectic self-defense system developed in Europe that involves striking techniques, wrestling and grappling. Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and extremely efficient, brutal counter-attacks...

, the Israeli form of fitness and Self defense with Vicky Kapoor head of International Krav Maga Federation, India.