Top 10 Indian Leaders in Canada – 2022

India is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and continues to maintain relationships with other Commonwealth countries. Since gaining independence from Britain in 1947, however, India is now classified as a newly industrialised country and has cultivated an extensive network of foreign relations with other states. Moreover, India was one of the founding members of several international organisations like the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, New Development BRICS Bank, and G-20, widely considered the main economic locus of emerging and developed nations.

India's growing economy, strategic location, mix of friendly and diplomatic foreign policy and large and vibrant diaspora has won it more allies than enemies. India has friendly relations with several countries in the developing world. Though India is not a part of any major military alliance, it has close strategic and military relationship with most of the fellow major powers.

Currently, India is taking steps towards establishing strategic partnerships with Canada and Argentina. Although India has not signed any formal strategic partnership agreements with Bhutan and Qatar, its foreign ministry often describes relations with these countries as 'strategic'. Indo Canadian relations, are the longstanding bilateral relations between India and Canada, which are built upon a ‘mutual commitment to democracy’, ‘pluralism’, and ‘people-to-people links’, according to the government of Canada. In 2004, bilateral trade between India and Canada was at about C$2.45 billion. Canada India relations have been on an upward trajectory since 2005. Governments at all levels, private sector organisations, academic institutes in two countries, and people-to-people contacts, especially diaspora networks that have contributed through individual and concerted efforts to significant improvements in the bilateral relationship. The two governments have agreed on important policy frameworks to advance the bilateral relationship. In particular, the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (signed in June 2010) and the current successful negotiations of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) constitute a watershed in Canada India relations.

This issue of the CEO Insights magazine consist a list of ‘Top 10 Indian Leaders in Canada - 2022’, is presented to the readers for realizing the growth of the sector by the topnotch personalities. The listing is prepared by a team of industry veterans, CEOs, VCs, and our editorial board. The CEO Insights team hopes to deliver encouraging and motivating stories to the readers.