List of Doon School alumni (Doscos)

Alumni of the Doon School, who are also known as Doscos, include some of India's most prominent business leaders and innovators. Listed below are a selection of Doscos who have lead major enterprises, primarily in India:

Armed Forces

Indian Air Force

*Air Chief Marshal Lakshman Mohan Katre
*Air Marshal Brijesh Dhar Jayal
*Air Marshal Trilochan Singh Brar
*Air Vice Marshal CG Devashar

Pakistan Air Force

*Air Marshal Asghar Khan, ex C-in-C of the PAF, and notable Pakistani politician.

Aerospace and Airlines

*Pushpinder Singh Chopra, CEO Dornier/Daimler Benz India
*Mhd. Rafique Saigol, Chairman Pakistan International Airlines

Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals

* Vittal Mallya, Chairman United Breweries Limited, Hoechst AG Chemicals and other companies
* Jamsheed Rezaur Rahim, Chairman ICI Group Pakistan
* Malvinder M. Singh, CEO & MD, Ranbaxy Group
* Shivinder M. Singh, MD, Fortis Healthcare Limited & Escorts. Heart Institute & Research Centre
* Analjit Singh, Co-Founder & Chairman, Max India Limited

Consulting/Finance/Banking

*Shamsunder Aggarwal, Chairman Diners Club India
*Vikram Atal, head of Citibank Credit Cards North America
*Rajdharee Lall, Chairman Andrew Yule and Company Ltd.
*Kali Moddy, Chairman Diners Club India
*M. CT. Muthiah, Chairman Indian Overseas Bank, United Fire & General Insurance
*Kai Nagorwalla, Head of Credit Suisse Asian Pacific
*Sunil Sreenivasan, Chief Country Officer Citibank
*Vikram Malhotra, Senior Partner & Head of McKinsey & Co.'s New York office, United States
*Sanjeev Mehra, Managing Director and Senior Partner at Goldman Sachs & Co, Principal Investment Area, United States
*Bob Khanna, Managing Director (Region Head), Citi Venture Capital International (CVCI), United States & Latin America
*Vinayak Bahuguna, Managing Director, Alternate Investments Group, Standard Chartered Bank, India
*Anil Kumar, Director & Head of McKinsey & Co.'s California region, United States
*Karan Singh, Partner, Head of Healthcare, Bain & Co., India
*Ranjit Pandit, Former Chairman of McKinsey & Company, India (Currently MD at General Atlantic Private Equity)
*Ravi Sinha, Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co., Hong Kong
*Ranjit Lakhanpal, Managing Director, Corporate Finance, JP Morgan, India
*Deepak Khanna, Country Manager, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Vietnam
*Pankaj Vaish, Head of Fixed Income & Equity, Lehman Brothers, India
*Vivek Goyal, Head of Fitch Ratings, Asia Pacific
*Varun Bery, Co-Founder & MD, TVG Capital Parners (PE arm of JP Morgan)
*Vijay Jagannathan, Sector Manager for Water and Environment, World Bank
*Sanjay Patel, Co-head of European Private Equity and Indian Capital Equity business, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners & Co., & "also recently been named among the UK's 20 most powerful fund managers"
*Vivek Pandit, Partner, McKinsey & Co, Mumbai Office, India

Manufacturing

*Vikram Lal, Chairman Eicher Group
*SC Malhotra, Chairman Empire Industries
*MA Murugappan, Chairman Coromandel Engineering
*Pran Prasad, Chairman Heilgers
*Habibur Rahman, Chairman Lever Bros., Pakistan
*Vasant Rajadhyaksha, Chairman Hindustan Lever
*Lt. Gen. AM Sethna, Chairman I.T.D.C
*CK Sinha, Chairman Balmer Lawrie & Co.
*L. M. Thapar, Chairman Ballarpur Industries Limited

Politicians

India

Cabinet Ministers in India

*Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India
*Mani Shankar Aiyar, Minister of Panchayati Raj, Development of Northeastern Region
*Kamal Nath, Minister for Commerce & Industry
*Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of State Communications and Information Technology
*Dinesh Singh, former Foreign Minister & Commerce Minister
*Karan Singh, former Minister for Tourism, Health, Education
*Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Steel

Members of Parliament in India

*Sanjay Gandhi
*Rahul Gandhi
*Jyotiraditya Scindia
*Vishvjit Singh
*Jitin Prasada

Chief Ministers of India

*Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister of Punjab
*Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Orissa

Other Indian government officials

*Uma Shankar Bajpai, Secretary of External Affairs
*Maheshwar Dayal, Secretary of Energy
*Ashok Gokhale, Secretary of External Affairs
*Vinod Kumar Grover, Secretary of External Affairs
*Dalip Mehta, Secretary of External Affairs
*KP Sankara Menon, Secretary of External Affairs
*Ramachandra D Sathe, Secretary of External Affairs
*Noel Swaranjit Sen, Director-General of Police, Andhra Pradesh
*PP Sharma, Former Chief Secretary, Jharkhand

Members of Legislative Assemblies in India

*Anang Uday Singh Deo, Orissa State Minister for Steel & Tourism
*Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon, Punjab State Cabinet Minister for Food and Civil Supplies; former Minister for Excise and Taxation
*Manpreet Singh Badal, Punjab State Cabinet Minister for Finance

Pakistan

*Masud Hasan, Federal Secretary of Defense
*Khan Mohammed Ali, former Minister of Health, Education, Sports, Culture, Tourism
*H.H. Miangul F.K. Aurangzeb, Wali of Swat
*Gen. Ghulam Jilani Khan, former Military Governor of Punjab

Tea

*Narendar Nath Atal, Chairman Makum Tea
*SK Mehera, President Tata Tea

Tobacco

*AN Haksar, Chairman ITC Ltd.
*Zia Shaffi Khan, Chairman Pakistan Tobacco

TV and entertainment

*Bhaskar Menon, President EMI, President Capitol industries
*Peter Mukherji, CEO STAR TV, India
*Prannoy Roy, CEO NDTV
*Karan Thapar, CNBC

Poets & Novelists

*Aamir Ali ("Conflict, Via Geneva" etc.)
*Vimal Bhagat ("Stage Whispers")
*Pushpinder Singh Chopra ("Touching the Sky" etc.)
*Amitav Ghosh
*Aminuddin Khan ("A Shift in the Wind")
*Saurabh Saklani ("What Teens Need but Can't Quite Say")
*Samit Sawhny ("All the World's a Spittoon")
*Aftab Seth ("Pillars of a Landscape")
*Vikram Seth

Historians, Essayists & Academic Writers

*Mani Shankar Aiyar
*Kanti Bajpai
*PM Das ("Storms and Sunsets in the Himalaya")
*Jagjit Singh Dulat ("Partners in Victory")
*Siddharth Dube ("In the Land of Poverty; Sex, Lies and Aids")
*Ramchandra Guha
*Rohit Kumar Handa ("Policy for India's Defense; Comrade Sahib)
*Prem Shankar Jha ("The Perilous Road to the Market"; "Kashmir 1947: The Origins of a Dispute")
*Deepak Lal (eleven books on economics)
*Piloo Mody ("Zulfy My Friend")
*Shomit Mitter ("Systems of Rehearsal")
*Naveen Patnaik
*Vijay Prashad ("Untouchable Freedom; Karma of Brown Folk")
*Shiv Kunal Verma ("Ocean to Sky: India from the Air")

Print Journalists

*Swaminathan Aiyar, Chief Editor of the Economic Times
*Inderjit Bhadwar, former Editor of India Today and author ("Sniffing Papa, The Chamber of Perfumes" etc.)
*Suman Dubey, former Editor of India Today
*Prem Shankar Jha, former Editor of the Hindustan Times, Economic Times and Financial Express, former information adviser to the Prime Minister of India
*Rahul Khushwant Singh, Editor of Reader's Digest
*Aroon Purie, founder of India Today
*B George Verghese, former Editor of the Times of India, Magsaysay Award winner and author ("Agenda for India" etc.)
*Gautam Vohra
* Shiv Singh, Co-publisher of Sommelier India
* Nikhil Deogun, International Editor of The Wall Street Journal & Former Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal

Educationalists

*Kanti Bajpai, Headmaster of The Doon School
*Shomie Das, Headmaster of The Doon School, Mayo College, Sanawar
*Gulab Ramchandani, Headmaster of The Doon School & Education Consultant
*Vivek Ramchandani, Founder Principal, The Shri Ram School, Delhi, Education Planner and now Education Officer, UNICEF
*Sumer Singh, Headmaster of Sanawar
*Gaurav Saklani, Co-Founder [http://www.exper.in Exper Executive Education] , Co-Founder [http://www.idiscoveri.com iDiscoveri Education] )
*Saurabh Saklani, Co-Founder [http://www.exper.in Exper Executive Education] )

Academics

* [http://www.iss.nl/iss/profile/173 Arjun Singh Bedi] , Professor of Quantitative Economics, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
*Ravi Mathai, Director of Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad)
* [http://www.ics.utsa.edu Ravi Sandhu] , Executive Director and Founder of Institute of Cyber Security Lutcher Brown endowed chair in Cyber Security Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chief Scientist and co-founder of Tricipher
*Debu Purohit, PhD, Senior Professor of Marketing, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

ports & Arts

* Abhinav Bindra, Air Rifle Shooter, India (Only Indian Individual Olympic Gold Medalist, 2008)
* Anish Kapoor, Renowned Sculptor, United Kingdom
* Ranjit Nanda, Leading Golf Course Designer, India (Inducted into Indian PGA Hall of Fame in 2005)
* Rohit Khosla, Fashion designer, one of the pioneers of Indian Fashion
* Tarun Tahiliani, Leading Fashion Designer, India

ources

* [http://www.dsobs.org/firstlevel.asp?first_id=191 "The Dosco Record"] , last published in 1996 by the Doon School Old Boys Society.
* [http://www.doononline.net "Doon Online"] , independent blog with up-to-date alumni news.
* [http://www.doscobhandar.com/main "Ex-Doscos Community Site - Where Doscos come together"]