Shantanu Srivastava

Early life and career Shantanu Srivastava was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. He did his schooling from Aligarh followed by B.Tech. (Mechanical) from IIT Kanpur.

Shantanu Srivastava was sent on deputation as a diplomat to the Indian Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam. He started his business from Vietnam after completion of his posting at the Indian embassy. Shantanu chose to stay in the South-East Asian country, which he calls his second home, until moving back to India in 2004. He founded the Indian Business Chamber in Vietnam in 1999. Since then the bilateral trade between the two countries has risen from 100 million dollars to over 12 billion dollars.

Shantanu started business with limited resources and over the past three decades he has diversified his business to Engineering Goods, Turnkey Projects, Agriculture and Entertainment.

Srivastava is the convenor of MSME for 2047 which is a private national level platform for MSME to play pivotal role in making Viksit Bharat by 2047 which is the vision of Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi. It is a Structured Mission to accelerate MSME growth to 15% per annum making it a central pillar in Bharat’s journey towards becoming a developed nation by 2047.

In popular culture A book was released on "Shantanu's 30 Years Relationship of Love, Respect, and Cooperation with Vietnam," in 2013 which was published by the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisation (VUFO) and was released by VUFO along with the then Ambassador of India. The book focuses on Shantanu's contributions to strengthening friendship and cooperation between the two countries.

In 2006, Government of Vietnam published a list of 500 friends of Vietnam. There are three Indians Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Shantanu Srivastava.