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Rajat Kumar Gupta ((:ɾɔdʒot̪ kumaɾ ɡupt̪o); born 2 December 1948) is an American businessman and philanthropist who is currently serving a two-year term in U.S. federal prison for insider trading. He was the first foreign-born Managing Director (chief executive) of management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003. He was also a board member of corporations including Goldman Sachs, Procter and Gamble and American Airlines, as well as an advisor to non-profits such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Additionally, he is the co-founder of the Indian School of Business, American India Foundation, New Silk Route and Scandent Solutions. He was convicted in June 2012 on insider trading charges of four criminal felony counts of conspiracy and securities fraud. He was sentenced in October 2012 to two years in prison, an additional year on supervised release and ordered to pay $5 million in fines.〔(''latimes.com'' ).〕 His conviction was upheld by a Federal Appeals Court on March 25, 2014. He then lodged an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court which was subsequently upheld on April 20, 2015. An application to remain free until the court determined whether it would hear the appeal was denied on June 11, 2014 leaving Gupta having to commence his two-year prison term on June 17, 2014. ==Early life and education== Rajat Gupta was born in Kolkata in a Bengali family, to Pran Kumar Gupta and Ashwini Gupta. His father was a journalist for Ananda Publishers and a professor in Calcutta’s Ripon College prior to that. His mother taught at a Montessori school. Gupta has three siblings. When Gupta was five the family moved to New Delhi, where his father went to start the Delhi-edition of the newspaper ''Hindustan Standard''. Gupta's father died when Gupta was sixteen; Gupta's mother died two years later. Now an orphan, Gupta and his siblings "decided to live by ourselves. It was pretty unusual in those days."〔 He was a student at Modern School in New Delhi. After high school, Gupta ranked 15th in the nation in the entrance exam for the Indian Institutes of Technology, IIT JEE. He received a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-Delhi) in 1971. Declining a job from the prestigious domestic firm ITC Limited, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 1973. Gupta graduated with distinction as a Baker Scholar.〔Helyar, John, Carol Hymowitz and Mehul Srivastava. (“Rajat Gupta Secretly Defied McKinsey Before SEC Says Rajaratnam Was Tipped” ). ''Bloomberg Markets Magazine.'' May 16, 2011.〕 Gupta remarked that the first time he saw an airplane was when he flew to ITC to inform them he would be attending HBS.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rajat Gupta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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