Gurcharan Das is a distinguished author, commentator, and former CEO of Procter & Gamble India. He graduated in philosophy with honours from Harvard University, where he was later inducted in Phi Beta Kappa for ‘high attainments in liberal scholarship’. After a successful career in business – leading Procter & Gamble India and Southeast Asia, and later serving as Managing Director of Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning) – he retired early to pursue a writing career.  

He is today one of India’s most celebrated authors and thinkers, best known for two iconic, bestsellers: The Difficulty of Being Good and India Unbound, which have shaped public discourse on India’s economic and social transformation. His newspaper columns are among the most widely read in India. His latest books are a memoir, Another Sort of Freedom, and Dilemma of the Indian Liberal.