{"id":14038,"date":"2018-11-29T05:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T05:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=14038"},"modified":"2018-11-29T05:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T05:22:15","slug":"france-bestows-highest-civilian-honour-on-wipro-chairman-azim-premji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=14038","title":{"rendered":"France bestows highest civilian honour on Wipro Chairman Azim Premji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14039\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14039 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"1 (1)\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7654\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" alt=\"Faceinews Logo - Copy\" width=\"173\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bangalore, India, November, 2018:\u00a0<\/strong> Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company, today received the highest French civilian distinction, Chevalier de la L\u00e9gion d&#8217;Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour), from the Ambassador of France to India, H.E. Alexandre Ziegler.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, <strong>Ambassador Ziegler said<\/strong>, \u201cThe award was bestowed on Azim Premji for his outstanding contribution to developing the information technology industry in India, his economic outreach in France, and his laudable contribution to society as a philanthropist through the Azim Premji Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The L\u00e9gion d&#8217;Honneur (the Legion of Honour), instituted in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, is the highest civilian award given by the French Republic for outstanding service to France, regardless of the nationality of the recipients. The President of the French Republic is the Grand Master of the Order of the Legion of Honour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his acceptance speech, <strong>Premji <\/strong>said, \u201cI am extremely honored by the award bestowed on me. The vibrancy of the French democracy and its diversity is an inspiration to all across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wipro\u2019s association with France spans over 15 years and the company enjoys a close relationship with several French organizations. Nearly 65% of Wipro\u2019s employees in France are locals. France is a key market for Wipro and the company is committed to continued investments there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Bangalore, India, November, 2018:\u00a0 Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company, today received the highest French civilian distinction, Chevalier de la L\u00e9gion d&#8217;Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour), from the Ambassador of France to India, H.E. Alexandre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14040,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions\/14040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}