The Indiaspora report 'India and its Diaspora: Partners in Progress' estimates 35 million people of Indian heritage across 200+ countries earn a combined $730 billion annually. Here's what that number does, and doesn't, tell us.
Bhavesh 'Bob' Patel is stepping in as CEO of Sempra Infrastructure just as KKR takes a major ownership stake — a coordinated bet on the company's next phase of LNG and energy infrastructure growth.
From a Sempra Infrastructure boardroom to the corner office at Chanel, from India's shifting export mix to a Wisconsin congressional campaign, this week's stories trace how far the Indian diaspora's influence now reaches beyond the industries it is best known for.
Indian-origin Republican candidates, including one running in Wisconsin, are building congressional campaigns explicitly around their immigrant journeys, according to New India Abroad. Here's what that framing choice actually signals.
Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, and Arvind Krishna remain fixtures on nearly every list of America's most powerful Indian-origin executives. In the year of the country's 250th anniversary, their continued dominance says less about individual triumph and more about a structural shift now decades in the making.
Anil K. Lalwani built a distinguished career in hearing disorders and surgical innovation across Columbia, NYU, and UCSF. In July 2026, he's packing up his lab to help build IIT Kanpur's medical school from the ground up — in person, not just with a check.
As America marks 250 years of independence, the Carnegie Corporation's 2026 Great Immigrants list includes four Indian-origin honorees spanning biotech, medicine, and technology — joining a roster that already includes a Nobel laureate and a former Surgeon General.
Shailesh Jejurikar didn't parachute into Procter & Gamble's top job from outside. The Mumbai-born executive spent nearly four decades climbing through the company before becoming CEO in January 2026 — a patient rise that stands apart from the usual Indian-origin executive story.
Shankh Mitra isn't a household name like Sundar Pichai or Satya Nadella. But in 2026, the Kolkata-born CEO of Welltower became the world's second-highest-paid executive after Elon Musk — with an $821.1 million pay package built almost entirely on a pandemic-era bet that paid off.
From Mukesh Ambani's return to the top of Hurun's rich list to a quiet compensation record at Welltower, from a 250th-anniversary honor roll in Washington to a string of attacks in Dublin, this week's Indian business and diaspora stories describe a community as consequential as it is vulnerable.