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Born: April 19,
1957
is a Chemical Engineer from the Institute of Chemical Technology,
Mumbai (earlier the University Department of Chemical
Technology, the University of Bombay). He has pursued MBA
from Stanford University, USA.
He joined Reliance in 1981 and initiated Reliance's backward
integration journey from textiles into polyester fibres and
further into petrochemicals, petroleum refining and going
up-stream into oil and gas exploration and production. He
created several new world-class manufacturing facilities
involving diverse technologies that have raised Reliance's
petrochemicals manufacturing capacities from less than a
million tonnes to about twenty million tonnes per year.
He led the creation of the world's largest grassroots
petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, with a current capacity of
33 million tonnes per year integrated with petrochemicals,
power generation, port and related infrastructure. Further,
he steered the setting up of another 27 million tonnes
refinery next to the existing one in Jamnagar with an
aggregate refining capacity of 1.24 million barrels of oil
per day at any single location in the world which has
transformed "Jamnagar" as the 'Refining Hub of the World'.
Under his leadership, RIL is set to transform India's energy
landscape from the oil & gas flowing from Dhirubhai 1 & 3
Natural gas - a low carbon, low polluting green fuel that
will create value and be beneficial to a large section of
India's society.
He is also steering Reliance's development of infrastructure
facilities and implementation of a pan-India organised
retail network spanning multiple formats and supply chain
infrastructure.
His achievements have been acknowledged at national and
international levels. Recently, some of the awards and
recognition bestowed on him are:
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Awarded the Dean's Medal by the University of Pennsylvania's
School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2010 for his
leadership in the application of Engineering and Technology.
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Awarded the Indian Merchant's Chamber (IMC) 'Juran Quality
Medal for 2009', in 2010.
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Awarded The Dwight D. Eisenhower Global Leadership Award by
The Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU)
in 2010.
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Honoured at the Awards Dinner by Asia Society in 2010.
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Ranked the 5th best performing CEO in the world by the
Harvard Business Review in its ranking of the top 50 global
CEOs.
He is a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and
Industry, Government of India and the Board of Governors of
The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER),
New Delhi.
He is a Member of Millennium Development Goals (MDG)
Advocacy Group constituted by United Nations (UN), a Member
of The Foundation Board of World Economic Forum and Vice
Chairman of World Business Council for Sustainable
Development (WBCSD).
Further, he is a member of the Indo-US CEOs Forum, the
International Advisory Board of Citigroup, the International
Advisory Board of the National Board of Kuwait, the Advisory
Council for the Graduate School of Business, Stanford
University, the International Advisory Board of Brookings,
Member of the Business Council, McKinsey Advisory Council
and the Asia Business Council and Advisory Board of D.E.
Shaw India Advisory Services Private Limited.
He is the Chairman, Board of Governors of the Indian
Institute of Management, Bangalore, Chairman of Pandit
Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar. He is also
Co-Chair of India-Russia CEO Council and Co-Chair of
Japan-India Business Leader's Forum, a Member of the
Governing Board of Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI).
He has been appointed as a Director by the Board of
Directors of the Bank of America Corporation on its Board.
He is the first non-American to occupy such a position.
At RIL, Shri Mukesh He is the Chairman of Reliance Retail
Limited, a Director of Reliance Infotel Broadband Services
Limited, Reliance Foundation, IMG Reliance Private Limited
and Reliance Europe Limited.
At RIL, he is the Chairman of the Finance Committee and a
Member of the Employees Stock Compensation Committee.
He is Promoter of the Company and holds 36,15,846 shares of
the Company in his name as on March 31, 2011. |
