List of Doon School alumni (Doscos)

List of Doon School alumni (Doscos)

Alumni of the Doon School, who are also known as Doscos, include some of India's most prominent business leaders and innovators. Listed below are a selection of Doscos who have lead major enterprises, primarily in India:

Armed Forces

Indian Air Force

*Air Chief Marshal Lakshman Mohan Katre
*Air Marshal Brijesh Dhar Jayal
*Air Marshal Trilochan Singh Brar
*Air Vice Marshal CG Devashar

Pakistan Air Force

*Air Marshal Asghar Khan, ex C-in-C of the PAF, and notable Pakistani politician.

Aerospace and Airlines

*Pushpinder Singh Chopra, CEO Dornier/Daimler Benz India
*Mhd. Rafique Saigol, Chairman Pakistan International Airlines

Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals

* Vittal Mallya, Chairman United Breweries Limited, Hoechst AG Chemicals and other companies
* Jamsheed Rezaur Rahim, Chairman ICI Group Pakistan
* Malvinder M. Singh, CEO & MD, Ranbaxy Group
* Shivinder M. Singh, MD, Fortis Healthcare Limited & Escorts. Heart Institute & Research Centre
* Analjit Singh, Co-Founder & Chairman, Max India Limited

Consulting/Finance/Banking

*Shamsunder Aggarwal, Chairman Diners Club India
*Vikram Atal, head of Citibank Credit Cards North America
*Rajdharee Lall, Chairman Andrew Yule and Company Ltd.
*Kali Moddy, Chairman Diners Club India
*M. CT. Muthiah, Chairman Indian Overseas Bank, United Fire & General Insurance
*Kai Nagorwalla, Head of Credit Suisse Asian Pacific
*Sunil Sreenivasan, Chief Country Officer Citibank
*Vikram Malhotra, Senior Partner & Head of McKinsey & Co.'s New York office, United States
*Sanjeev Mehra, Managing Director and Senior Partner at Goldman Sachs & Co, Principal Investment Area, United States
*Bob Khanna, Managing Director (Region Head), Citi Venture Capital International (CVCI), United States & Latin America
*Vinayak Bahuguna, Managing Director, Alternate Investments Group, Standard Chartered Bank, India
*Anil Kumar, Director & Head of McKinsey & Co.'s California region, United States
*Karan Singh, Partner, Head of Healthcare, Bain & Co., India
*Ranjit Pandit, Former Chairman of McKinsey & Company, India (Currently MD at General Atlantic Private Equity)
*Ravi Sinha, Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co., Hong Kong
*Ranjit Lakhanpal, Managing Director, Corporate Finance, JP Morgan, India
*Deepak Khanna, Country Manager, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Vietnam
*Pankaj Vaish, Head of Fixed Income & Equity, Lehman Brothers, India
*Vivek Goyal, Head of Fitch Ratings, Asia Pacific
*Varun Bery, Co-Founder & MD, TVG Capital Parners (PE arm of JP Morgan)
*Vijay Jagannathan, Sector Manager for Water and Environment, World Bank
*Sanjay Patel, Co-head of European Private Equity and Indian Capital Equity business, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners & Co., & "also recently been named among the UK's 20 most powerful fund managers"
*Vivek Pandit, Partner, McKinsey & Co, Mumbai Office, India

Manufacturing

*Vikram Lal, Chairman Eicher Group
*SC Malhotra, Chairman Empire Industries
*MA Murugappan, Chairman Coromandel Engineering
*Pran Prasad, Chairman Heilgers
*Habibur Rahman, Chairman Lever Bros., Pakistan
*Vasant Rajadhyaksha, Chairman Hindustan Lever
*Lt. Gen. AM Sethna, Chairman I.T.D.C
*CK Sinha, Chairman Balmer Lawrie & Co.
*L. M. Thapar, Chairman Ballarpur Industries Limited

Politicians

India

Cabinet Ministers in India

*Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India
*Mani Shankar Aiyar, Minister of Panchayati Raj, Development of Northeastern Region
*Kamal Nath, Minister for Commerce & Industry
*Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of State Communications and Information Technology
*Dinesh Singh, former Foreign Minister & Commerce Minister
*Karan Singh, former Minister for Tourism, Health, Education
*Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Steel

Members of Parliament in India

*Sanjay Gandhi
*Rahul Gandhi
*Jyotiraditya Scindia
*Vishvjit Singh
*Jitin Prasada

Chief Ministers of India

*Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister of Punjab
*Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Orissa

Other Indian government officials

*Uma Shankar Bajpai, Secretary of External Affairs
*Maheshwar Dayal, Secretary of Energy
*Ashok Gokhale, Secretary of External Affairs
*Vinod Kumar Grover, Secretary of External Affairs
*Dalip Mehta, Secretary of External Affairs
*KP Sankara Menon, Secretary of External Affairs
*Ramachandra D Sathe, Secretary of External Affairs
*Noel Swaranjit Sen, Director-General of Police, Andhra Pradesh
*PP Sharma, Former Chief Secretary, Jharkhand

Members of Legislative Assemblies in India

*Anang Uday Singh Deo, Orissa State Minister for Steel & Tourism
*Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon, Punjab State Cabinet Minister for Food and Civil Supplies; former Minister for Excise and Taxation
*Manpreet Singh Badal, Punjab State Cabinet Minister for Finance

Pakistan

*Masud Hasan, Federal Secretary of Defense
*Khan Mohammed Ali, former Minister of Health, Education, Sports, Culture, Tourism
*H.H. Miangul F.K. Aurangzeb, Wali of Swat
*Gen. Ghulam Jilani Khan, former Military Governor of Punjab

Tea

*Narendar Nath Atal, Chairman Makum Tea
*SK Mehera, President Tata Tea

Tobacco

*AN Haksar, Chairman ITC Ltd.
*Zia Shaffi Khan, Chairman Pakistan Tobacco

TV and entertainment

*Bhaskar Menon, President EMI, President Capitol industries
*Peter Mukherji, CEO STAR TV, India
*Prannoy Roy, CEO NDTV
*Karan Thapar, CNBC

Poets & Novelists

*Aamir Ali ("Conflict, Via Geneva" etc.)
*Vimal Bhagat ("Stage Whispers")
*Pushpinder Singh Chopra ("Touching the Sky" etc.)
*Amitav Ghosh
*Aminuddin Khan ("A Shift in the Wind")
*Saurabh Saklani ("What Teens Need but Can't Quite Say")
*Samit Sawhny ("All the World's a Spittoon")
*Aftab Seth ("Pillars of a Landscape")
*Vikram Seth

Historians, Essayists & Academic Writers

*Mani Shankar Aiyar
*Kanti Bajpai
*PM Das ("Storms and Sunsets in the Himalaya")
*Jagjit Singh Dulat ("Partners in Victory")
*Siddharth Dube ("In the Land of Poverty; Sex, Lies and Aids")
*Ramchandra Guha
*Rohit Kumar Handa ("Policy for India's Defense; Comrade Sahib)
*Prem Shankar Jha ("The Perilous Road to the Market"; "Kashmir 1947: The Origins of a Dispute")
*Deepak Lal (eleven books on economics)
*Piloo Mody ("Zulfy My Friend")
*Shomit Mitter ("Systems of Rehearsal")
*Naveen Patnaik
*Vijay Prashad ("Untouchable Freedom; Karma of Brown Folk")
*Shiv Kunal Verma ("Ocean to Sky: India from the Air")

Print Journalists

*Swaminathan Aiyar, Chief Editor of the Economic Times
*Inderjit Bhadwar, former Editor of India Today and author ("Sniffing Papa, The Chamber of Perfumes" etc.)
*Suman Dubey, former Editor of India Today
*Prem Shankar Jha, former Editor of the Hindustan Times, Economic Times and Financial Express, former information adviser to the Prime Minister of India
*Rahul Khushwant Singh, Editor of Reader's Digest
*Aroon Purie, founder of India Today
*B George Verghese, former Editor of the Times of India, Magsaysay Award winner and author ("Agenda for India" etc.)
*Gautam Vohra
* Shiv Singh, Co-publisher of Sommelier India
* Nikhil Deogun, International Editor of The Wall Street Journal & Former Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal

Educationalists

*Kanti Bajpai, Headmaster of The Doon School
*Shomie Das, Headmaster of The Doon School, Mayo College, Sanawar
*Gulab Ramchandani, Headmaster of The Doon School & Education Consultant
*Vivek Ramchandani, Founder Principal, The Shri Ram School, Delhi, Education Planner and now Education Officer, UNICEF
*Sumer Singh, Headmaster of Sanawar
*Gaurav Saklani, Co-Founder [http://www.exper.in Exper Executive Education] , Co-Founder [http://www.idiscoveri.com iDiscoveri Education] )
*Saurabh Saklani, Co-Founder [http://www.exper.in Exper Executive Education] )

Academics

* [http://www.iss.nl/iss/profile/173 Arjun Singh Bedi] , Professor of Quantitative Economics, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
*Ravi Mathai, Director of Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad)
* [http://www.ics.utsa.edu Ravi Sandhu] , Executive Director and Founder of Institute of Cyber Security Lutcher Brown endowed chair in Cyber Security Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chief Scientist and co-founder of Tricipher
*Debu Purohit, PhD, Senior Professor of Marketing, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

ports & Arts

* Abhinav Bindra, Air Rifle Shooter, India (Only Indian Individual Olympic Gold Medalist, 2008)
* Anish Kapoor, Renowned Sculptor, United Kingdom
* Ranjit Nanda, Leading Golf Course Designer, India (Inducted into Indian PGA Hall of Fame in 2005)
* Rohit Khosla, Fashion designer, one of the pioneers of Indian Fashion
* Tarun Tahiliani, Leading Fashion Designer, India

ources

* [http://www.dsobs.org/firstlevel.asp?first_id=191 "The Dosco Record"] , last published in 1996 by the Doon School Old Boys Society.
* [http://www.doononline.net "Doon Online"] , independent blog with up-to-date alumni news.
* [http://www.doscobhandar.com/main "Ex-Doscos Community Site - Where Doscos come together"]


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