Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, born 23 March 1953, founder and chair of Biocon Limited, https://www.biocon.com

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 23 March 1953) is the founder and chair of India's Biocon Limited ( https://www.biocon.com). Biocon is a global biopharmaceutical company changing patients’ lives in over 120 countries by finding new and affordable ways to treat diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases.Her life story is an inspiring one of not just persevering, but succeeding, as a woman in what was then very much a man's world in Australia and India.This episode is my reading of the chapter on her life in my book Added Value (Roli Books, 2010).As you will hear, there were two unexpected interruptions by the same young man to my interview with Kiran and which only go to show the enormous respect in which she is held throughout India. Please note that these interviews took place some time ago - over 25 years ago in the case of the South East Asian life story book and around 10 to 15 years ago in the case of the two Indian life story books.  However, their stories are correct to the time of the interviews and the objective is to demonstrate the entrepreneurial skills they exhibited at the time of the interviews in building their businesses.