Kurian was born to P. C. Kurian and his wife Molly in 1966 in
Pampady village of
Kottayam district in
Kerala, India. Thomas Kurian Kurian senior was a chemical engineer and the general manager of Graphite India. Kurian was one among four brothers including his
identical twin and
Google Cloud CEO,
Thomas Kurian. As their father's career involved moving around India, the twins boarded at the Jesuit-run
St Joseph's Boys' High School in
Bangalore. Both were accepted to the university
IIT Madras. There they both took
SAT tests and sent the results to various colleges, including
Princeton University, which offered both of them partial scholarship places. At the age of 17, along with Thomas Kurian, he moved to the United States. George Kurian is a 1995 graduate of
Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also holds an
electrical engineering degree from
Princeton University. == Career ==