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President
Nominee
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| Kalyan
Bannerjee
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| 2011-12,
India |
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Kalyan Bannerjee a
member of the Rotary Club of Vapi,
Gujarat,
India
since 1972, is the 2011-12 president-nominee.
The nominating
committee for president of Rotary International in 2011-12 selected Banerjee in
August. There were no challenging candidates prior to the 1 October deadline.
Banerjee is a
director of United Phosphorus Limited, the largest agrochemical manufacturer in
India
, and the chair of United Phosphorus (
Bangladesh
) Limited. He is a member of the Indian Institute of
Chemical Engineers and the American Chemical Society, a past president of Vapi
Industries Association, and former chair of the
Gujarat
chapter of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He earned a degree in chemical
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1964.
Benerjee has served
Rotary as a Director, Rotary Foundation trustee, committee and task force
chair, International Assembly group discussion leader, president’s
representative & DG.
The chair of the
Southeast Asia Regional Polio Plus Committee, Banerjee has served as a member
of the International Polio Plus Committee for many years and has attended
international meetings with the World Health Organization and UNICEF in that
capacity.
Banerjee is a Major
Donor, Benefactor, and Bequest Society member, and has been awarded the
Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service and its Distinguished Service
Award.
Banerjee also serves
as a trustee of Rotary club-sponsored trusts that support many educational and
community development programs in
India
, including a 250-bed hospital.
He noted that
Rotary’s strengths include its ability to attract leaders from different
vocations around the world, as well as its role in promoting peace. “Rotary
needs to become the preferred organization for today’s generation to join and
participate in, to make the world better and safer and happier,” he said’
Benerjee’s wife,
Binota, is a social worker and Inner Wheel Club member. The couple has two
children and four grandchildren.
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