Namita Thapar is the Executive Director of Emcure Pharmaceuticals. Namita serves as a Board Member on the India Regional Advisory Board of Fuqua School of Business. She has been a speaker at various prestigious forums such as Harvard Business School, Indian Institute of Management (IIM- A), ET women’s conference, FICCI etc.
Namita has run an entrepreneurship education program for the past 6 years for 11-18-year-old students (Earlier known as Young Entrepreneurs Academy – YEA! India).
Namita is a recipient of various prestigious corporate awards such as the 40 under Forty award by Economic Times, and the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in business by Business Today. Namita runs Thapar Vision, a sector agnostic early-stage startup investment fund.


Redefining Entrepreneurship Education
Thapar Entrepreneurs Academy is a groundbreaking and exciting class that transforms students into real, confident entrepreneurs.
Throughout the class, students develop business ideas, write business plans, conduct market research, listen to live talks by experts, and actually launch and run their own real companies and social movements.






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Weekdays batch – Monday to Friday (3.00 pm – 5.00 pm)
Weekend batch – Saturday & Sunday (11.00 am -1.00 pm)
- 15 sessions of 2 hours each
- Classes for 11-18-year-olds
- Classes for 18+
- Classes in English
- Live & not recorded classes by trained teachers