Mr Banerjee has held several senior posts with the CII for twenty two years (in all four regions of CII). He has been the Director General of CII since 2008. CII operates out of 64 offices in India and 9 overseas offices in Australia, Austria, China, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, UK and USA, and has institutional partnerships with 213 counterpart organisations in 88 countries. CII serves as a reference point for Indian industry and the international business community.

He has been responsible for important areas of work including the Sectoral Verticals in the Manufacturing, Services, Agriculture and Life Sciences Sectors and SMEs. He has led key policy work of CII in the areas of Economic Policy, Financial Services and Corporate Governance (he was also the Executive Director of the National Foundation of Corporate Governance, an organisation set up by the Ministry of Company Affairs, Government of India).

For a year he was in Bangalore to initiate the Centre of Excellence of the Machine Tool Manufacturers Association (IMTMA), which is a stateof- the-art centre for training, conventions and trade fairs.

Mr. Chandrajit Banerjee on Indian Innovations