Ashwini Kakkar

Ashwini Kakkar
Ashwini Kakkar
Nationality	Indian
Education	PGDM; MBA; BEng
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Management Kolkata; INSEAD; National Institute of Technology;
Occupation	Entrepreneur & philanthropist
Board member of	Action Against Hunger

Ashwini Kakkar is an Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist, currently serving as the Chairman of Action Against Hunger, a global humanitarian organization established in 1979 by a group of French doctors, scientists, and writers and is committed to ending world hunger. He is a former chairman of Mercury Travels and co-founder and chairman of Via.com.

In 2006, he was honoured with the highest civilian award Chevalier de Ordre national du Mérite by the President of France Jacques Chirac. He is also the president of the Travel Agents Association Of India, chairman of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), and a global director of the Universal Federation of Travel Agent Associations (UFTAA).

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