Foxconn CEO Young Liu Conferred With Padma Bhushan – News18

On Republic Day’s eve, 132 people were conferred with Padma awards, the government announced. Among the awardees, the CEO of Taiwan’s Foxconn, Young Liu has also been honoured with Padma Bhushan.

For the year 2024, the President has approved conferment of 132 Padma Awards including 2 duo cases (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per list below.

A global business leader and innovator, Liu has been serving as the CEO of international semiconductor manufacturing giant, Foxconn.

A recognized entrepreneur and innovator with over four decades of industry experience, Mr. Liu founded three companies: a motherboard company in 1988 known as Young Micro Systems; a northbridge and southbridge IC design company in 1995 focused on the PC chipset and an ITE Tech and an ADSL IC design company, ITeX in 1997.

Young Micro Systems was merged with Foxconn in 1994, and ITeX was successfully listed on NASDAQ in 2001.

According to the company’s official website, Liu has been committed to the digital transformation of Hon Hai (Foxconn) and as a result, he was awarded the “Digital Transformation Leadership” by Harvard Business Review in 2021.

The businessman from Taiwan earned an M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1986 and a B.S. degree in Electrophysics from Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University in 1978.

The list comprises 5 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 110 Padma Shri Awards. 30 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 8 persons from the category of Foreigners / NRI / PIO / OCI and 9 Posthumous awardees.

Padma Awards – one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines / fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.