{"id":30133,"date":"2022-06-30T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T00:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=30133"},"modified":"2022-09-02T18:21:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T23:21:04","slug":"deloitte-ceo-punit-renjen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/deloitte-ceo-punit-renjen\/","title":{"rendered":"Deloitte\u2019s CEO Punit Renjen to Receive \u2018Pride of America\u2019 Award as a Great Immigrant of 2022 This July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

34 naturalized US citizens, including two India-born Americans, will be recognized as \u2018Great Immigrants of 2022\u2019 and receive the \u2018Pride of America\u2019 award this July 4, the US Independence Day<\/strong>. Since 2006, the Carnegie Corporation of New York has been celebrating naturalized Americans from different walks of life, who have enriched the nation through their contributions, as great immigrants. Punit Renjen and Padma Lakshmi are the Indian Americans who will be honored with the \u2018Pride of America\u2019 award once the flag is unfurled at the US Capitol on July 4.<\/p>\n

Punit Renjen, the CEO of Deloitte Global, is fully deserving of this honor for having started a number of initiatives<\/strong> aimed at improving education equity for the world\u2019s underprivileged and achieving net-zero carbon emission by 2030. Named Global Indian of the Year by the Economic Times in 2022; Punit Renjen believes, \u201cCorporate excellence is not just taking care of business, it is taking care of all your stakeholders \u2013 customers, people, and the communities that you live and work in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He is celebrated as a determined champion of women\u2019s and girls\u2019 access to education, especially in India where there are more than 3 million eligible, yet out-of-school girls, according to his article titled \u201cInvesting in India\u2019s Women can Unlock the Country\u2019s Economic Potential\u201d. He wrote,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIndia has the world\u2019s fastest-growing major economy and a well-educated workforce that\u2019s expected to soon pass China\u2019s in size. Still, I can\u2019t shake the notion that in the race for global economic leadership, India is running with just one shoe. I say that because nearly half of the country\u2019s working-age population is being left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corresponding to his vision of women empowerment, Deloitte committed to impacting the lives of 10 million women and girls across India<\/strong> by collaborating with several organizations including Udayan Care that works to help girls and young women develop the skills needed to fill the gap between their abilities and employability. This is part of Deloitte\u2019s WorldClass initiative to help 50 million people from underserved communities prepare for a world of opportunity. Driven by his CSR leadership, hundreds of Deloitte employees all over the globe volunteer their time, knowledge and expertise to help build millions of futures.<\/p>\n

Punit Renjen\u2019s vision and mission for Deloitte as its global CEO rests on the foundation of his parents\u2019 teachings to him.<\/strong> That \u201cwork must have a sense of purpose beyond mere financial gain; that to be meaningful, work should make a positive and lasting difference in the lives of others\u201d was instilled in him by his parents while he was growing up as a young boy in India. That\u2019s why he has been with Deloitte since his youth and has been greying his hairs there \u2013 which, he says, is \u201cthe road less travelled by today\u2019s young professionals, specifically millennials.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has been asked many a time what he would have been if he had not started as an associate consultant at Deloitte in the late 1980s.<\/strong> He says uninhibitedly he would have been a professional cricket player, a university professor, director of an NGO, or he would have joined the family business in Rohtak, a small town in the Indian state of Haryana. The partition of India in 1947 forced his father to give up his plans for engineering studies. The senior Renjen set up an electrical switchgear factory in Rohtak.<\/p>\n

In his heyday, he was able to afford his son\u2019s boarding schooling at the Lawrence School in Shimla, one of the elite institutions of the time. When Punit was 14, the family business was in the doldrums and his father found the boarding school too expensive to be affordable<\/strong>. \u201cI came home from boarding school to help out. I ended up working there for the next few years. My father couldn\u2019t afford to send me to a prestigious college, so I went to the college in my local town. Had I not earned a Rotary International scholarship to attend university in the US, I might have stayed and taken over the family business,\u201d Deloitte\u2019s CEO Punit Renjen recalled in one of the interviews.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 1984, he travelled to the US from India with the scholarship, two pairs of tight jeans, a couple of hundred extra dollars, and a degree in economics<\/strong>. Punit Renjen\u2019s journey from his first-ever international flight to business class travel<\/a><\/span>, from an F1 visa to the most coveted US citizenship in 1986, and from an associate consultant to the CEO is an epic story of \u2018American Dream\u2019. Under his visionary leadership, Deloitte\u2019s revenue exceeded US$50 billion in FY 2021. How he ended up with Deloitte is an interesting story\u2026.,\u201d said Sourav Agarwal, the Editor of Travel Beats, an overseas Indian community portal by IndianEagle.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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