Pawan Kumar Goenka is an Indian businessman, and the retired Managing Director[1] of Mahindra & Mahindra, an Indian multinational automobile manufacturing corporation headquartered in Mumbai, and the chairman of SsangYong Motor Company in Korea.

[4][5] Goenka did his schooling in Shree jain Vidyalaya, Kolkata, and then earned his BTech in mechanical engineering from IIT Kanpur and PhD from Cornell University.

In Nov 2016 Dr Pawan Kumar Goenka was elevated to the post of Managing Director of M&M.

"[7] Goenka is the past president of SIAM, Society of Automotive Engineers India, and ARAI Governing Council, and was a board member of National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) from August 2013 to August 2014.

He is also a national council member of CII, and chairman of board of governors of IIT Madras.