3. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the founder chairperson of Biocon Ltd., the largest biopharmaceutical firm of India established in 1978. 66-year old Kiran has a net worth of US$3.5 billion and has an overall ranking of 617 on the Forbes billionaires list 2019. Biocon is the first company that received USFDA approval for two different cancer treating biosimilar drugs and successfully entered the lucrative US biosimilars market. The USP of her company is that it depends upon its own R&D rather than the other copycat generics makers.
