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Company: New Delhi Television (NDTV).

Dr. Pranoy Roy is a Director on the Board of:

• NDTV Media Limited, NDTV News Limited,
• NDTV Imagine Limited, NDTV Lifestyle Limited,
• NDTV Convergence Limited, NDTV Labs Limited,
• NDTV Investments Private Limited,
• RRPR Holding Private Limited,
• Metronation Chennai Television Private Limited,
• Alliance Lumiere Limited,
• NGEN Media Services Private Limited.
• Dr. Prannoy Roy is a Member of the Shareholder's Investors Grievance Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company.

Roy attended The Doon School, Dehradun and went to Haileybury (UK) for his A-levels. He did a BSc in Economics from the University of London's Queen Mary College in 1973, after which he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He received his Ph.D. (in agricultural economics) from the Delhi School of Economics, where he taught for a year. During 1985-1987, Dr. Prannoy Roy was associated with the Ministry of Finance, Government of India as Economic Advisor.

In 1987 Prannoy Roy shifted to the electronic media. He had people glued to their television sets with “The World this Week”. He is responsible for changing the face of news broadcasting almost beyond recognition. He is aptly termed the brand-equity of New Delhi Television (NDTV).

He is an economist, a chartered accountant, an author, a computer man owning a software company, a commentator on current affairs and the owner of New Delhi Television. He is also a member of International Advisory Board a neo conservative globalist think tank council on foreign relations.