Dr. Ashok K. Chauhan
President, Amity Law School
Founder President, Ritnand Balved Education Foundation
Chairman, AKC group of Companies

After finishing M.Sc in Chemistry in the year 1963 and working for about 3 years in a renowned industrial group and contributing successfully to be building up of an industrial complex from grass root level, Dr. Ashok K. Chauhan left for Germany in 1966. He pursued in the then West Germany his higher studies in the field of Chemical Engineering and Plastic Technology and after that he worked as the Head of the Research and Development Department of the renowned European Group Daetwyler. In West Germany at that time he was the only one such highly placed person in the corporate world from Asia. As Chairman and CEO of AKC Group of Companies, he built the industrial commercial empire allover the world beginning from Germany.

He attained the status of most successful NRI of Continental Europe. In the year 1992 Dr. Chauhan was awarded the honour of Man of the Year in a glittering ceremony in London

He is known with various names, the Man with Midas Touch, the Barter King, and the people who know him closely describe him as an entrepreneur, an educationist, a philanthropist, a doctor, a priest, a psychiatrist and a humble person-all in one.

In past decades, Dr. Chauhan was the NRI Member of the four Committees set up respectively by the Prime Minister, by the Finance Minister, by the Commerce Ministry and by the Chief Minister of U.P. He was also conferred the honour through President Zail Singh as the NRI who has contributed maximum in providing technology inputs in India.

During the unification of both parts of Germany, Dr. Chauhan was honoured in 1993 by the German Government as the Biggest Non-German Investor in the then East Germany. He acquired eight big factories with a work force of 6,000 Germans. Dozens of prizes and awards nationally and internationally have been bestowed upon Dr. Chauhan.

He is the Founder President of Ritnand Balved Education Foundation. It is because of his unparalleled vision that Amity Educational Institutions from secondary to tertiary and professional level, have reached the top position within a short span of time. He is, in true sense, an "Institution Builder" nurturing the institution with unique character.

He is the Chancellor of Gurukul Mahavidyalaya, Jwalapur. He was recently conferred upon the honour of International Man of the Year 1997-98 in recognition of his services to Education by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England.

It is only because of his firm belief that the Indian possesses the virtues, qualities and personal traits which are without a match in the world and because of his strong conviction that India can be aroused to its fulsome power, glory and potential from its present situation, that he untiringly engages himself in promotion of education, notwithstanding his worldwide hectic engagements.