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As director, onshore, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Sanjay Kumar Moitra oversees the production of oil and gas from the onshore fields of the company. He has held this position since April 18, 2018. […]
Manoj Gupta has been a banker for nearly 15 years. As a chartered accountant, he started his career with BOC India Limited, a leading gases and engineering company, in 2000. He was trained in strategic […]
Saurabh Rao, a 2003 batch Indian Administrative Service officer, was recently appointed municipal commissioner of the Pune Municipal Corporation. Prior to becoming commissioner in 2018, he has served in various capacities in the state government. […]
Pankaj Kumar, an Indian Telecom Services officer of the 1991 batch, brings to the table 27 years of experience. As secretary, Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) he is in charge of administration and finance, and […]
N.L. Sharma, chairman and managing director of SJVN Limited, is disappointed that growth has been worse than sluggish, with only 44 GW coming onstream so far. He is dismayed that hydro currently contributes just 14 […]
Jyothi Venkatachalam brings to the table more than a decade’s experience in tariff regulation. A chartered accountant by profession, Venkatachalam is currently working as joint director with the Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP), a […]
Overseeing the credit and legal operations of India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL), Chief General Manager C.M. Khurana has been with the organisation since 2015. His career, spanning over 41 years, began as a probationary […]
Mayank Bansal, director, Global Infrastructure Partners, India (GIP), is an experienced infrastructure equity investor with investments in sectors such as roads, thermal and renewable power, rail and air logistics, telecom and healthcare. He joined IDFC […]
Ravi Agarwal, managing director, Rajasthan State Gas Limited (RSGL), a joint venture of GAIL (India) Limited, has been with the organisation since 2014, a year after its inception. In this role, his responsibilities include setting […]
B.C.K. Mishra, managing director at state-owned Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL), believes that sharing the benefits of hydropower development amongst the community is important. The fair sharing of benefits would not only justify the project’s […]
Dr Kumar V. Pratap is currently serving as Joint Secretary (Infrastructure Policy and Finance), Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance (MoF). In the past, he has worked with the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the […]
Surjit Singh Madan is currently serving as head, rail systems at Amravati Metro Rail Corporation [AMRC] Limited. He has expertise in developing rolling stock and associated rail systems for transportation projects in India and abroad. […]
Sanjay Banga, who has worked in a range of different areas at Tata, including business development, contract management, power management and power systems control, took over as chief executive officer of Tata Power-DDL in May […]
Captain Unmesh Abhyankar brings to the table over three decades of experience in the maritime industry. He is currently joint president, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZL), and heads the chief executive officer’s […]
Bhajan Pratap Singh is a member of the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC). He is a graduate in mining engineering from the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, where he also pursued a certification course in […]
One of Tejinder Kalra’s defining traits is the compulsion to throw himself outside his comfort zone. As Indus Towers’ chief operating officer (COO), his earlier experience with Nokia on the active side of the networks […]
A 1992 batch Indian Economic Service officer, Praveen Mahto is Adviser, NITI Aayog, and has over 26 years of experience in various infrastructure sectors and public-private partnership (PPP) models. Mahto began his career with a […]
Captain Sriram Ravi Chander brings to the table over two decades of experience in the maritime industry. He is currently associated with Jaigarh port, the flagship port of JSW Infrastructure, as its unit head and […]
An engineering graduate with a postgraduate degree in operations research, S. Gopu joined telecom manufacturer ITI in 1982 as assistant executive engineer. Last year, he took over as CMD. During this period, he has been […]
Whatever job he takes up, Saurabh Kumar finds himself in the vanguard of reform. What could be more pioneering right now (apart from artificial intelligence) than ushering in electric vehicles (EVs); switching the entire government […]