YES Bank founder Rana Kapoor has taken over as the president of the Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) on Saturday, following the conclusion of the chamber’s 92nd annual general meeting in New Delhi this week.
Kapoor, also the managing director and chief executive of the bank, said he would promote a five-point agenda — economic security, livelihood security, energy security, ecological security and national security — on securing sustainable growth for India during his presidentship in 2013-14.
Kapoor is an MBA from Rutgers’ University in New Jersey, US, and studied economics at the University of Delhi.