International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) said it has elected founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, Sunil Bharti Mittal, as its chairman in a voting held in Sao Paolo, Brazil. He is the third Indian business leader to hold this position in ICC’s near 100 years history.

Founded in 1919, ICC is the world’s largest business organisation, which represents the private-sector’s views to national governments and intergovernmental bodies around the world. Sunil Bharti Mittal takes over from Terry McGraw, Chairman Emeritus of S&P Global, who will subsequently become ICC’s Honorary Chairman.

Mittal also serves as the Chair of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Telecommunications Steering Committee, Member of International Business Council-WEF, GSMA Board, Telecom Board of International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Commissioner of the Broadband Commission, International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore as well as the Prime Minister of Singapore’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council.