Tarun Khanna grew up in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore in India, the son of a philosopher mother and an engineer father. Today, Jorge Paulo Lemann is a professor at Harvard Business School in the USA. He is the founding director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University. He co-chairs the Lancet Commission on a Citizen-Centred Health System for India. He is an expert on entrepreneurship as a tool for social and economic development. He claims that his early life does not have a romantic story.