Karan Bilimoria

Karan Faridoon Bilimoria, Lord Bilimoria[1][2] CBE, DL (born 26 November 1961, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India is an Indian-origin British entrepreneur and a life peer.

Political Career

Karan was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2004 for his services to business and entrepreneurship.[19] In June 2006 he was appointed an Independent Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords and created Baron Bilimoria, of Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.[3] He is the first Zoroastrian Parsi to sit in the House of Lords

Education

Karan did his early schooling in Hyderabad where the family lived at his mother's ancestral home, Anand Bhavan, while his father served in different military stations in the country. As he grew, his family began to accompany his father, and Karan attended seven different schools before his younger brother, Nadir, and he were sent to board at the Hebron School, Ooty in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.[7] When he was still nineteen, Karan received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Osmania University in Hyderabad in 1981.

On receiving a scholarship, he then moved to London where he qualified as a chartered accountant with what is today Ernst & Young and received a diploma in accounting from the London Metropolitan University. Thereafter he read law at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge.

External Links

http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-bilimoria/3809