Shri Anand Mahindra is the Chairman of the Mahindra Group, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited and Tech Mahindra Limited. His tenure has seen the Group expand domestically and internationally into a range of major industrial sectors, across automobiles, agriculture, financial services, IT, aerospace, defence, hospitality, and renewable energy, with over 350,000 associates across 100 countries. The Group has also grown inorganically through acquisitions such as Swaraj Tractors, Reva Electric Car Company, Satyam Computer Services, Holiday Club Resorts, and Pininfarina S.p.A, helping shape its evolution into a globally diversified federation of businesses.

He has served on several influential bodies, national and international. These include the UN Global Compact Board, Global Board of Advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations, World Bank Group’s Advisory Board for Doing Business. He has been the President of The Confederation of Indian Industry and served on the boards of the National Stock Exchange of India and the National Council of Applied Economic Research. He has also been closely engaged with global economic and policy platforms - he co-chaired the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos (2009) and the WEF India Economic Summit (2014), was a Co-Chair of the Bloomberg Global Business Forum (2017 and 2018).

Shri Mahindra has been conferred with the Padma Bhushan Award (2020), India's third-highest civilian honour, for his contribution to the nation in the field of ‘Trade and Industry’. He was also the first Indian recipient of the Harvard Medal by the Harvard Alumni Association (2014). He has also received the Sustainable Markets Initiative's inaugural Terra Carta and Astra Carta Award (2026), and has been recognised with several leading business honours, including CNBC's Asia and India Business Leader of the Year (2006), Economic Times Business Leader of the Year (2009), the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year India (2009) and Forbes India Entrepreneur of the Year (2013).

He has been named in Barron's List of Top 30 CEOs worldwide (2016) and Fortune Magazine’s list of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders (2014). He was appointed ‘Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honour’ by the President of the French Republic (2016) and conferred the 'Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy' by the President of Italy (2013).

An incisive business commentator and humanitarian with over 11 million followers on X (formerly Twitter), Shri Mahindra is among the most influential global business voices from India. He also initiated the Nanhi Kali programme, which, for the last three decades, has supported the education of nearly a million underprivileged girls. Shri Mahindra is the Chairman of the Board of Naandi Foundation, India’s leading NGO focused on educating girls, skilling youth and providing sustainable livelihoods to small farmers through biodynamic agriculture. He also serves on the Founders Board of The Rise Fund, a $2 billion impact fund. He is a graduate of Harvard College (Magna cum Laude) and Harvard Business School. He is a strong votary of arts and culture. Mahindra Blues, Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards and Mahindra Sanatkada celebrate and nurture music, theatre culture, art and history in India. In 2014, Shri Mahindra founded the Pro Kabaddi League to popularize the ancient and popular Indian game of kabaddi. Shri Mahindra graduated from Harvard College (1977) and secured an MBA from Harvard Business School (1981).