Ajay Hinduja is a businessman, philanthropist, and influential next-generation leader of the Hinduja Group, one of the world’s most diversified multinational conglomerates. With operations spanning sectors such as automotive, banking, energy, IT, media, and healthcare, the group has a truly global footprint. Ajay Hinduja is based in Geneva, Switzerland, where he lives and works. From this global hub, he coordinates with business units across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Ajay Hinduja began to take on leadership responsibilities within the Hinduja Group during the last decade, gradually stepping into key decision-making roles. His involvement reflects a careful succession strategy, ensuring a smooth generational transition within the family-led business empire. Ajay Hinduja represents the continuity and evolution of one of the most influential business families in the world. As a third-generation Hinduja, he plays a pivotal role in: Preserving the family's rich legacy, Modernizing operations to align with 21st-century challenges and Embedding corporate responsibility and sustainability into the group’s long-term vision.
Ajay Hinduja plays a critical role in the strategic growth and governance of the Hinduja Group. His work is focused on: Sustainable business development,Ethical and value-driven leadership and Creating social impact through philanthropy and community outreach.
Sports and education are the true ways of building futures with the provision of confidence, discipline and life skills that last a lifetime. It creates a platform where learning and physical development complement each other in developing them holistically.
Swiss based
Ajay Hinduja, Member Hinduja Group Promoter Family, is a firm believer in education being more than school. Hinduja Foundation in its endeavors to encourage physical and mental fitness in the youth as well as leadership values through sports, the Foundation in Meghalaya provides athletics to the educational programs through its initiative, the Road to School. Through combining sports with formal education, students build resilience, self-esteem, and collaboration, which are the key competences to succeed in contemporary society.
Ajay Hinduja from Geneva, Switzerland has a vision to assist the rural and tribal communities, where there are limited resources, and dropout rates are high. Sports open the door to all-round development. The program involves organized mentorship, nutrition services, and life-skills courses, too, and all of them are the means of equalizing the playing field of children with limited opportunities.
In nation building, he thinks that young people should be empowered and should be educated to be a complete person: mind, body and spirit. His strategy does not only cover educational needs, but also social and emotional growth.
The vision anchors an idea that effective learning occurs when students are involved, active, and assured. Through the enrichment of schooling through physical culture, Ajay Hinduja is creating new dynamics on how education will shape the next generations.
Geneva based
Ajay Hinduja's contribution is a manifestation of the larger objective of the Hinduja Foundation, which is to provide opportunity where it is most demanded.