New Delhi: Foxconn CEO Young Liu, who finds India as the new global manufacturing hub, has been conferred with Padma Bhushan, the second highest civilian award of India.
Young Liu is the CEO and Chairman of the Hon Hai Technology Group (FOXCONN), the world’s largest electronics manufacturer and the leading global science and technology solutions provider.
Liu visited India in July last year, and highlighting scope of semiconductor manufacturing landscape of India, he had said that Gujarat would always be their first choice for investments.
Taiwan-based Foxconn’s global operations employs over one million employees across 24 countries and revenues that exceeded USD 206 billion in 2021.
Foxconn’s three major technologies are AI, Semiconductors, and Next-generation communication technologies.
Young Liu joined Foxconn in 2007 as a Special Assistant to the Founder. In 2010, he was appointed as the General Manager of Innovation Digital System Business Group of Foxconn.
In 2016, he was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of SHARP Corporation, as well as the General Manager of Foxconn’s Semiconductor Business Group.
In 2019, Liu was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Hon Hai Technology Group, and the Chairman of Foxsemicon Integrated Technology Inc.
He was awarded the “Digital Transformation Leadership” by Harvard Business Review in 2021.
Young Liu earned an M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1986 and a B.S. degree in Electro-physics from Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University in 1978.
