Philanthropy
Gupta’s philanthropic, charitable, and volunteer efforts mainly focus on the areas of education, global health, and global business.
In the past, Gupta has been involved with a number of universities and other educational institutions, volunteering and serving as chairman and member of several boards and councils. As of 2011, he has either resigned or taken leaves of absence from the boards on which he served as director or chairman.
In June, 1995, Gupta was elected to the University of Chicago’s Board of Trustees. He also served as a member of the Yale President’s Council.
Gupta co-founded the Indian Institute of Technology Alumni Association. He also chaired the Board of Directors and served on the Advisory Board.
With Anil Kumar, Gupta co-founded the Indian School of Business, and under his chairmanship of the governing and executive boards the school became one of the leading business schools in the world.
Gupta served as Chairman of the Board of Associates of the Harvard Business School, and was a member of the Board of Governors for the Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Additionally he served on the Dean's Advisory Council at the MIT Sloan School of Management and on the advisory board of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Gupta was a Member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, and served on the board of Skolkovo. Gupta also was on the boards of Millennium Promise and the Pratham India Education Initiative.
In 2009, he was elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2011, he became a Founding Member of the Young India Fellowship. He is the former Co-Chairman of the United Nations Association of America.
Gupta’s activities in global health include serving as a founding Board member and then Chairman of the Board for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He served from April 2007 to March 2011, and was succeeded in September 2011 by Simon Bland. He also was the co-founder and founding Chairman of the Public Health Foundation of India. He was on the board of the Emergency Management and Research Institute, Health Management Research Institute, and International Partnership for Microbicides. He was also chairman of the advisory board and the India AIDS initiative of the The Gates Foundation as well as its Global Health Initiative until 2011. He is a former board member of the Emergency Management and Research Institute, a former Member of the Board for the Global Health Council, a former member of the United Nations Commission on the Private Sector and Development, a former Member of the Board for the Health Management Research Institute, and a former Member of the Board for the International Partnership for Microbicides (or IPM). He was a member of the board of the Global Health Council and the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as the Weill Cornell Medical College. In March 2006, he was named the founding Chairman for the Public Health Foundation of India (or PHFI). He remained in that position until resigning in March of 2011.
In addition, he was the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Board for the American India Foundation (or AIF), the largest diaspora philanthropy organization focused on India and based out of the United States. He began the organization in response to an earthquake that struck India in 2001,with its initial goal to help victims of the tragedy. From 2006-2011, he served as a Trustee for the Rockefeller Foundation.
Throughout his career, Gupta has been a part of various global business initiatives. He was previously the chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce, and was appointed as Special Assistant to the Secretary General for Management Reform for UN Secretary General Kofi Anan in 2005. From 2008 to 2010, Gupta was a member of the Foundation Board for the World Economic Forum. Gupta also served as the chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council from 2002 to 2005. He also served on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's global advisory council from its inception until early 2012.
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