Team Blitz India
LONDON: Business leaders at the forefront of UK-India trade and investment relations and medical professionals making a mark on the National Health Service (NHS) and worldwide stand out in King Charles III’s first Birthday Honours List.
The list, released last weekend to mark the monarch’s official birthday with a Trooping the Colour parade in London, confers an OBE on Grant Thornton’s Anuj Chande – best known for his work in steering the annual ‘India Meets Britain Tracker’ of Indian companies operating in the UK as prominent job creators.
Also recognised with an OBE is Professor Prokar Dasgupta of King’s College London, who was recently also conferred with the Padma Shri for his work in the field of robotics.
Expert panel review
The King’s Birthday Honours recognise people who have made achievements in public life and committed themselves to serving and helping Britain. Committees of independent experts meet to review nominations twice a year and then a main committee agrees a final list, which was sent to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and then to the King.
A roll call of some of the Indianorigin professionals, academics, healthcare experts, frontline and community workers to make the 2023 Birthday Honours List made up of 1,171 high-achieving individuals includes Satyajit Bhattacharya, lately SerjeantSurgeon to the Royal Household; Shila Patel, Payroll Officer, Privy Purse and Treasurer’s Office, Royal Household; Dr Parvinder Kaur Aley, Director of Global Operations, Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford for services to Vaccination during Covid-19; Anuj Jayantilal Chande, Partner, Grant Thornton for services to International Trade and Investment, among others.
