Kalyan Banerjee (IITKGP), a member of the Rotary Club of Vapi, Gujarat, India, since 1972, will now assume charge as President of Rotary International for the year 2011–12. Banerjee is the organization’s 101st president and the third from India.

He has been involved with Rotary since 1972, when he joined the fledgling club in his hometown of Vapi. Around the same time, Banerjee was starting a small company, United Phosphorous Limited, to produce red phosphorous, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. He steered the company to become the largest agrochemical manufacturer in India.

Over the last four decades, Banerjee has served Rotary as a district governor, president’s representative, committee and task force chair, Rotary Foundation trustee, and director. He also has been a member of the International PolioPlus Committee, heading up initiatives that have spurred Rotary’s polio eradication efforts in India.