Dr Naushad Forbes is co-chairman of Forbes Marshall, India's leading steam engineering and control instrumentation firm. Forbes Marshall has consistently ranked amongst India's Great Places to Work. He is also chairman of Ananta Aspen Centre and Centre for Technology, Innovation and Economic Research (CTIER).

Naushad received his bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, where he also taught an occasional course for twenty years. He has written widely on innovation in developing countries and higher education in India, including a book, From Followers to Leaders, co-authored with David Wield. He writes a monthly column for Business Standard.

He is on the board of several educational institutions and public companies. Naushad has long been an active member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and was president of CII for 2016-17.