Background
Kiran Karnik was born in 1947 in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Kiran Karnik was born in 1947 in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
He completed his Bachelor of Science(Honours) in Physics from Bombay University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management,(Ahmedabad).
Presently he is also serving as a Director in Central board of directors of Reserve Bank of India. He is also the chairman, board of directors, of the Indraprastha Institute of Information TechnologyDelhi (IIIT-Doctorate). Kiran Karnik"s stints in broadcasting and outsourcing were at crucial points in the history of these two industries in India.
Broadcasting Karnik joined the Indian Space Research Organisation shortly after it was set up in 1969 and spent nearly 20 years in the organisation.
Mr. Karnik was Director of the Indian Space Research Organisation"s Development and Educational Communicational Unit from 1983 to 1991. Mr. Karnik left the Indian Space Research Organisation and joined the Consortium for Educational Communication (Council for Exceptional Children) as its first Director in 1991.
Council for Exceptional Children was set up by the University Grants Commission to co-ordinate and oversee the functioning of media centres in the universities. In 1995, Mr. Karnik joined Discovery Networks as its managing director in India and oversaw the launch of Discovery Channel in South Asia in August 1995 followed by Animal Planet in 1999.
He left the company in 2001.
Outsourcing He made the organisation into the preeminent association for the outsourcing industry and a prominent lobbying group for the concerns of the industry abroad. He left the organisation in 2008. Subsequently, he was nominated by the government as Chairman of Satyam Computer Services heading a three member board after the Government of India disbanded the Satyam board owing to severe irregularities and fraud in accounting.
He is currently the Chairman of the National Committee on Telecom & Broadband at the Confederation of Indian Industry.
He has been a member of many government committees, including the Prasar Bharati Review Committee, and is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and the National Innovation Council. He is currently the Chairman of the "Board of Governors" and member of the "General Council" of the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi.