| | JUNE 20229Rolls-Royce India President Kishore Jayaraman GetsHonorary British AwardKishore Jayaraman, President, India and South Asia for RollsRoyce, has received an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen. He received the award for services to international trade and investment, with a key focus on pro-motion of the India-UK trade. Kishore is a board member of the UK-India Business Council, which supports the UK businesses set-up in India. He has also been instrumental in promoting bilateral ties by set-ting up a strategic ecosystem for boosting manufacturing in India enabled by the UKs technology. Under his leader-ship, the company set-up the 'Engineering Centre' in Benga-luru in2015, 'Digital Centre of Excellence' with over 60 digital technologists in 2017, and its first 'Startup Accelerator Programme' in India in 2019.Kishore Jayaraman said: "I am humbled and honoured to accept this award from Her Majesty the Queen. It is a privilege and a re-sponsibility to be bestowed with this honour. I believe this recognition will further reinforce for the industry a greater sense of pur-pose in accelerating efforts for co-innovation and collaboration between the two great na-tions"."India and the United Kingdom are natural allies with several ar-eas of synergy emerging over the last few years. As we look to the future, there is tremendous opportunity to steer our work as industry through the Depart-ment for International Trade (DIT) and the UK-India Business Council (UKIBC) towards gener-ating shared value and sustainable growth". KISHORE IS A BOARD MEMBER OF THE UK-INDIA BUSINESS COUNCIL, WHICH SUPPORTS THE UK BUSINESSES SET-UP IN INDIA
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