Dr. Udit Batra is the President and CEO of Waters Corporation, a leading global provider of analytical instruments and software solutions. He brings more than two decades of leadership and operational expertise in healthcare and life sciences, with a proven track record of leading multi-billion-dollar global organizations and driving results at the top of the industry.  Batra received his BSE from the University of Delaware, where he is currently a member of the Chemical Engineering Advisory Council. His Ph.D. in chemical engineering was earned at Princeton in 1996. Dr. Batra started his career at Merck Research Labs in West Point, Pennsylvania as a research engineer.

Before joining Waters, he served as the CEO of MilliporeSigma, the life science tools business at Merck KGaA, and joined the Executive Board in April 2016, responsible for the Life Science business which he has led as CEO since 2014. Prior to that, Batra served in a range of leadership positions at Novartis, a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company. In addition to leading Corporate Strategy and Global Public Health and Market Access for Vaccines and Diagnostics, he also served as president of the Australia Pharma business.

Dr. Batra currently serves as the Chairman of the Massachusetts High Technology Council and as a Board member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and MassBio. Under his leadership, Waters continues to be a key player in the analytical instruments market, serving pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and academic research sectors globally.  Indiaspora is proud to have Dr. Udit Batra on our Business Leaders 2.0 List.