Current
Chairman — Currimjee Jeewanjee & Co Ltd
The operating company at the centre of the group, formed by the three Jeewanjee brothers in 1900. He became Managing Director in 2013, succeeding Bashir Currimjee, and now serves as Chairman.
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The record, set out plainly
A career spent inside one enterprise and across the institutions that surround it — a chamber of commerce, a bilateral business council, a consulate, a national employers’ federation. What follows is drawn from public filings, institutional registers and published reporting.
Professional background
A leader formed by two educations and one enterprise
Anil C. Currimjee completed his undergraduate education at Williams College in Massachusetts in 1982 and took a Master of Business Administration at London Business School in 1988. Between and after those two points he entered the family enterprise — a business that by then had already changed shape four or five times.
The combination matters more than it might appear. A liberal-arts undergraduate education followed by a European MBA is an unusual formation for the head of a fourth-generation family firm in a small economy, and it maps closely onto the two registers in which he has since operated: the long, patient, relationship-driven register of a family enterprise, and the analytical, comparative, institutional register of a business federation president arguing about productivity, competitiveness and regulatory design.
Inside the group
In 2013 he succeeded Bashir Currimjee as Managing Director of Currimjee Jeewanjee & Co Ltd. He is today Chairman of both Currimjee Jeewanjee & Co Ltd and Currimjee Limited, the holding company constituted in 1988. The group he chairs reports over 1,500 employees, seventeen companies, seven clusters and a 2024 turnover of Rs 9.4 billion, placing it among the largest private enterprises in the country.
The clusters are not adjacent by accident. Telecoms and technology, anchored by Emtel; real estate, including Quay 11 and La Place; tourism and hospitality at Le Chaland; business solutions and commercial; energy; fast-moving consumer goods through Quality Beverages and Soap and Allied Industries; and financial services. Each entered the portfolio at a moment when Mauritius itself was opening that sector — import substitution in the 1960s, the export processing zone in the 1970s, telecommunications liberalisation at the end of the 1980s, financial services and destination tourism in the decades after.
A period of structural change
The chairmanship has coincided with the most significant governance transition in the group’s modern history. In 2024 the group implemented a strategic reorganisation, Currimjee Jeewanjee & Co Ltd acquired Quality Beverages Ltd, Compagnie Immobilière Limitée completed the Quay 11 acquisition, and — most publicly — Emtel floated 25% of its equity on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius in July 2024. In August 2025 the group stepped back from majority control of MC Vision, retaining a 25% interest; in December 2025 it announced a management partnership with Constance Hotels for its Le Chaland property, which opened as Constance Le Chaland in February 2026.
Read together, these are the moves of a family enterprise deliberately converting itself into an institution: bringing outside capital onto the register, narrowing to businesses where it holds a defensible position, and handing operating control to specialist partners where it does not.
The public mandate
Two years at the head of the private sector
Business Mauritius represents the country’s employers across every sector. Its president is, in practice, the private sector’s principal counterpart to government — in the Joint Public-Private Committee, in budget consultation, and in the national conversation about wages, productivity, energy and skills.
Elected on 28 September 2023 after two years as Vice-President, he took office with four stated axes: climate change and the energy transition, social equity and inclusion, the island’s connectivity, and financial services alongside talent attraction and retention.
His term coincided with an unusually dense policy period. He publicly opposed a salary adjustment introduced outside the established framework, arguing that pay increases must be accompanied by a corresponding conversation about productivity if competitiveness is not to erode — a position later vindicated in the courts, as he characterised it at the end of his mandate. He also argued repeatedly that the country needs to import skills it does not yet produce in order to develop emerging sectors.
« Les hausses salariales doivent être suivies par une réflexion sur la productivité. » Anil Currimjee, as published by Defi Media — “Wage increases must be followed by a reflection on productivity.”Follow the leadership journey
Documented roles
Positions on the public record
Compiled from company registers, institutional listings and published reporting. Where a role has ended, the period is marked as former. No position is listed here that could not be sourced.
Current
Chairman — Currimjee Limited
The holding entity created in 1988 when group governance was first formally restructured. Currimjee Limited sits above the operating clusters.
Since 2013
Chairman — Sanlam Africa Core Real Estate Fund Limited
A pan-African real estate investment vehicle, chaired since 2013.
Since 2004
Chairman — Joint Business Council, Mauritius–India
The bilateral business council linking the Mauritian and Indian private sectors. He also chairs the Indo-Mauritius Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Since 2019
Director — African Rainbow Capital Investments Limited
A Johannesburg-listed investment company with a diversified South African portfolio.
Since 2016
Director — Emtel Limited
The mobile operator launched by the group in 1989 and partially listed on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius in 2024.
2023–2025
President — Business Mauritius
Elected 28 September 2023 after two years as Vice-President; succeeded by Arnaud Lagesse in 2025.
2003
President — Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The MCCI, founded in 1850, is the country’s oldest business institution. He held its presidency for the 2003 term.
To 2016
Honorary Consul-General of Japan in Mauritius
A consular appointment held for more than fourteen years, recognised in 2017 with a Japanese state decoration.
Since 2004
Director — Margarine Industries Ltd
One of the import-substitution manufacturing businesses established by the group in the 1960s.
Former
Director — The Mauritius Commercial Bank Ltd
MCB is the largest banking group in Mauritius and one of the oldest banks in the southern hemisphere.
Former
Director — Fincorp Investments Ltd; MDIT Co. Ltd
Non-executive directorships in Mauritian listed investment vehicles.
Sources: Currimjee Group corporate site; MarketScreener corporate-leader register; Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry list of past presidents; Business Mauritius announcements; Embassy of Japan in Mauritius. Board mandates change; this listing reflects the most recent public record available at the time of writing.
Bilateral and consular work
Fourteen years representing Japan in Port Louis
Alongside his corporate responsibilities, Anil C. Currimjee served as Honorary Consul-General of Japan in Mauritius for more than fourteen years, until 2016. On 3 November 2017 the Government of Japan approved his decoration with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, for his contribution to mutual understanding and the development of friendly relations between Japan and Mauritius. The conferment ceremony was held at the Embassy of Japan in Mauritius in June 2018.
The bilateral thread runs in a second direction as well. Since 2004 he has chaired the Joint Business Council linking Mauritius and India, and he chairs the Indo-Mauritius Chamber of Commerce & Industry — institutional roles that sit naturally alongside the group’s own operations and investments in India, and alongside a family history that began in Gujarat.
Why the bilateral roles matter
Mauritius has no domestic market of scale. Its treaty network, its diaspora links and its bilateral chambers are not ceremonial — they are the substitute for scale. Chairing a bilateral council in a small trading economy is closer to trade infrastructure than to protocol.
Scope of this profile
What this website does and does not claim
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