Lord Bilimoria (Cobra Beer founder): Fireside Chat Series

​Karan Bilimoria is the founder of Cobra Beer, a household brand in the UK and one of the most awarded beers in the world.

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Lord Bilimoria is the Founding Chairman of the UK India Business Council, a Lieutenant to His Majesty’s Commission of Lieutenancy for the City of London, and a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Greater London. He served as a Senior Non-Executive Director of the Booker Group, now TESCOPLC, from 2007 to 2016. He is one of the first two visiting entrepreneurs at the University of Cambridge and a founding member of the Prime Minister of India’s Global Advisory Council. In 2006, Karan Bilimoria was appointed as the Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea, becoming the first-ever Zoroastrian Parsi to sit in the House of Lords. He is a former Chancellor of Thames Valley University (now the University of West London) and was the youngest university chancellor at the time of his appointment. From July 2014 to July 2024, he served as the seventh Chancellor of the University ofBirmingham, becoming the first Indian-born Chancellor of a Russell Group University in Great Britain.