Dr. Arun Chandavarkar
Chief Executive Officer & Joint Managing Director, Biocon Limited

with Biocon since 1990

Dr. Arun Chandavarkar is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Joint Managing Director of Biocon.

Dr. Chandavarkar has played a critical role in the evolution of Biocon over the past several decades. Under his leadership, Biocon has developed deep expertise in diverse technology platforms spanning microbial fermentation, cell culture, chemical synthesis and purification to develop a wide portfolio of products from specialty enzymes to complex active pharmaceutical ingredients to recombinant therapeutic proteins.

As CEO and Joint Managing Director of Biocon, Dr. Chandavarkar is now leading the company into its next phase of evolution, where it is rapidly gaining recognition as an innovation-led global biopharmaceutical company.

He graduated in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and holds a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from MIT, Cambridge, USA. He joined Biocon as General Manager - Operations in 1990, took on the role of President - Operations & Technology and subsequently became the Chief Operating Officer in 2006. He served as Chairperson of the National CII Committee on Biotechnology for the year 2016-17.