Adar Poonawalla is an Indian businessman and film producer. He joined the Serum Institute of India in 2001 after graduating from the University of Westminster in London, and became its CEO in 2011. Under his leadership, the company, founded by his father Cyrus Poonawalla in 1966 and widely recognised as the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by number of doses produced, scaled up production of the Covishield COVID-19 vaccine to meet global demand. He is also the chairman of Poonawalla Fincorp, and was named to the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people in 2021.

He entered the film industry in 2024, when his company Serene Productions acquired a 50 percent stake in Karan Johar's Dharma Productions. He is a producer on Udta Teer, alongside Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta, Guneet Monga Kapoor and Achin Jain.