IN PICS: Indian-Origin CEOs And NRIs Making The Country Proud Globally

Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai is the Chief Executive Officer at Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. He was born in Tamil Nadu's Madurai and graduated from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering. He joined Google in 2004 and was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10, 2015. Image Source: Getty Images

Former CEO and Chairperson at PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi was born in Madras (now Chennai) and completed her Post Graduate Programme Diploma IIM Calcutta in 1976. She worked with several MNCs like Johnson & Johnson, Boston Consulting Group, Motorola among other. Image Source: Getty Images

Satya Nadella is the Executive Chairman and CEO of Microsoft who was born in Hyderabad into a Telugu speaking Hindu family. He received his bachelor's in electrical engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology in 1988. He led major projects at Microsoft in the initial years that included the company's move to cloud computing and the development of one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world.Image Source: Getty Images

Leena Nair, Chief Executive Officer at French luxury fashion brand Chanel. Originally hailed from Kolhapur in Maharashtra and graduated from XLRI-Xavier Institute of Management. In 2016, Nair became Unilever's first female, first Asian, youngest ever chief human-resources officerImage Source: Wikimedia Commons

Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, Parag Agarwal was born in Rajasthan's Ajmer. In 2005, he earned his degree in Bachelor of Technology from IIT Bombay and in the same year moved to the United States to pursue his PhD from Stanford University. Before joining Twitter, he held research internships at Microsoft Research and Yahoo!. Image Source: Getty Images

Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American businessman, venture capitalist and a co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Khosla was born in Pune and completed his graduation in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi. Image Source: Getty Images

This mother-daughter author duo of Anita Desai and Kiran Desai have made their name for their writings. Anita won the Sahitya Academy Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain and has also won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea while daughter Kiran's novel The Inheritance of Loss won the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Image Source: Getty Images

Mira Nair is an Indian filmmaker based in New York. Her films Mississippi Masala, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, The Namesake, Salaam Bombay! received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. Image Source: Getty Images

Indian-born Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry was born in Mumbai in a Parsi family. He emigrated to Canada in 1975 where he worked in a bank before returning to academia. Each of his first three novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Image Source: Getty Images

Amartya Sen is a renowned Indian economist and philosopher and is currently a Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. Image Source: Getty Images