Shri Sushil Chandra Mishra has taken over as the Chairman and Managing Director of Oil India Limited (OIL), India’s second largest National Exploration & Production Company on 1st October, 2019. The qualifications of Shri S.C.Mishra include BE (Electronics) and MBA (Finance). An accomplished professional with cross-functional domestic and international experience, Shri Mishra has track record of delivering stretched results. He has over 35 Years of experience in Oil India Limited (OIL), a Government of India enterprise & Navratna company, engaged in Exploration, Development, Production and Transportation of Crude Oil and Natural gas. Having started his professional journey as an Executive Trainee with OIL in 1984, Shri Mishra developed deep expertise in commercial matters and played a key role in framing and implementing procurement policies & procedures for inventory management, vendor development, framework agreement and its related strategies. The core experience in operational activities at OIL's Main Producing Area (MPA) in Assam was further complimented while he discharged various responsibilities in diverse functions like ERP, Strategic Planning, E&P Projects, Corporate affairs, managing renewable energy portfolio & business development etc. Shri Mishra acquired significant Board level exposure at corporate office at the time of launch of OIL’s IPO in 2009 and developing the Strategic Plan 2020.
Shri Mishra also holds a unique distinction of achieving OIL’s first ever overseas discovery as operator in Gabon setting a foundation for OIL to carry out extensive exploration & production activities at global landscape for its growth.
Prior to taking over as Chairman & Managing Director, he held the position of Executive Director (Rajasthan Project), Jodhpur and was responsible for successfully implementing India’s first and deepest Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS) process - a technology to produce heavy crude oil. Holding the promise of manifold increase in production of heavy-oil from Rajasthan fields, CSS is expected to be game changer vehicle for growth and expansion of OIL's domestic production.
Known for his people skills & quick decision making abilities, Shri Mishra has deep understanding of OIL's culture with proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.

Shri Harish Madhav, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) took over as Director (Finance) on the Board of Oil India Limited on 2nd Aug. 2019.

Earlier, he has served as Executive Director (Finance) at Oil India’s Corporate office and was also functioning as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) handling a diverse gamut of finance and accounting functions covering International Fund Raising, Treasury Management, Corporate Strategy, Risk Management, Corporate Accounts & Audit, and Budgeting.

His tenure in various capacities during the last decade witnessed major events at OIL and included successful raising of foreign currency borrowing of over $4.5 Billion in the form of syndicated loans and bonds. He was also instrumental in first ever listing of foreign currency bonds by an Indian oil sector company on the International Securities Market of London Stock Exchange (LSE).

Before joining OIL, he had also worked with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.

Shri Madhav has over 30 years of rich and varied experience in Oil & Gas industry in both Upstream and Downstream sectors. 

Mr. Biswajit Roy has taken over as Director (Human Resources & Business Development) of Oil India Limited (OIL) on 8th May 2015. Mr. Roy has over 36 years of rich experience in the Oil Industry, spanning across a spectrum of diverse functions such as Marketing, Operations, Business Development, Human Resources, besides a stint at the Overseas Office of Indian Oil at Dubai.

Some of the HR Initiatives in which Mr. Roy has been actively associated with includes introduction of Leadership (Assessment) Centres and Multi-rater (360 degree) Appraisal System, implementation of Electronic Performance Management System (ePMS), formulation of new Vision and its implementation strategy, besides heading an Industry Team on setting up of ‘Hydrocarbon Sector Skill Council (HSSC)'.

A graduate in Chemical Engineering from University of Roorkee (now, IIT Roorkee), he completed National Management Programme (NMP) from Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon.

He also has to his credit many publications in National and International journals and made presentations at international forums. He has won many coveted Awards like ‘Overall Winner’ of the prestigious Global HRD Award 2014, presented by International Federation of Training & Development Organizations (IFTDO).

He is a Core Committee member of National HRD Network (NHRDN), Delhi and NCR Region for the period 2014-16, for building the "HR brand".

Mr. Pankaj Kumar Goswami took over as Director (Operations) on the Board of the Company on 1st June, 2020. Prior to that Mr. Goswami was holding the position of Chief General Manager(Projects) of the Company, at Field Headquarter at Duliajan, Assam. As Chief General Manager (Projects) Mr. Goswami looked after implementation of large number of complex and high-value projects of the Company related to production of Oil & Gas. Mr. Goswami led a team for development of gas field in Company’s most promising structures in upper Assam. By virtue of his rich experience of working in production of oil & gas from India’s oldest and highly matured oilfield of Naharkatia in Northeast India, he carries the distinction of being a hard-core oil-man with deep learning on geology, drilling and most importantly the social fabric of a difficult exploration terrain of the states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. Mr. Goswami joined the Company in the year 1988. He holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Assam Engineering College, Guwahati and has also completed an advanced Post-Graduate Diploma in Maintenance Management in 2001. With more than 31 years of experience in oil & gas production activities at Assam & Assam-Arakan Basin in Northeast India, Mr. Goswami has conceptualized many out-of-box ideas including implementation of produced water re-injection scheme and study of corrosion in vertical and horizontal flow regime of gas wells having Carbon-dioxide thereby resolving serious safety issues. He had also headed various high-level committees and task forces to oversee critical projects and activities related to oil and gas production, infrastructure facility implementation, operational issues and technology initiatives. A thorough technocrat, Mr. Goswami has presented number of scientific papers relevant to the oil and gas industry both at national and international level.

Dr. P. Chandrasekaran assumed the charge of the post of Director (Exploration & Development) of Oil India Limited on 01.04.2017(F.N.). Prior to assumption of this charge, he was holding the post of Basin Manager, KG-PG Basin, ONGC, Chennai since July 2015.

He completed his post-graduation in Geology from Madras Presidency College in 1983 and subsequently acquired a Ph.D from IIT Roorkee on the subject “Petroleum Prospect and Risk Evaluation”.
Dr. Chandrasekaran has served in ONGC since April 1984, and started his career at Mumbai as an Operations Geologist. From then on the experiences have been multifarious, in various facets of petroleum exploration like Operations Geology, G & G data interpretation, reserve estimation, petroleum risk and economic analysis, exploration management including drawing short, medium and long term plans, monitoring of exploration activities, Exploration Portfolio Management. During his initial tenure at Chennai in KG interpretation group, he was closely associated with discoveries like Pasarlapudi, Mandapeta, Ravva. Subsequently he worked on Petroleum Risk & Economic Analysis at Dehradun, data interpretation of Assam Arakan Fold Belt at Jorhat for prospect generation and again at Dehradun in E&D Directorate. He has handled all types of techno-economic evaluations under varied types of fiscal regimes like Nomination, Risk Service Contracts, Production Sharing Contracts etc. He also evaluated most of the foreign acreages for ONGC Videsh that were on offer during the nineties.



He played a key role as member of the core team for evaluation of the blocks that were on offer under NELP I, II & VII to IX. He was a key member of the core team that formulated the Perspective Plan 2030 of ONGC. He was closely associated with the exploration and development activities of KG and Cauvery Basins and also deepwater exploration during his tenure at E & D Directorate, Dehradun.

All such learnings and experiences culminated in his being appointed Basin Manager of KG Basin, one the most challenging, happening sedimentary Basins of India.

Mr. Amar Nath, Joint Secretary (Exploration) Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas is the Govt. nominee Director and joined the board on 15th October 2018.
Mr. Amar Nath, an IAS Officer (1994 AGMUT Cadre) is a Bachelor of Science (Mechanical Engineering) from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra University and MA (International Development Policy) from Duke University, USA. Shri Amar Nath was Secretary to the Department of Health, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi prior to the present assignment. He has held the positions of Administrator of Union Territory of Lakshadweep, Chief Executive Officer of Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board, and Chief Executive Officer of Chandigarh Housing Board in Chandigarh.
He has extensive experience of working in various Departments of Government at senior management positions such as Finance, Economic Planning, Tourism and Industrial Development in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Pondicherry, Chandigarh and Delhi. Before joining IAS in 1994 he worked with State Bank of India and Steel Authority of India.

Shri Asheesh Joshi, Director (Exploration-I) Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas was inducted as Government Nominee Director on the Board of the Company on 22nd December, 2020. Shri Asheesh Joshi is an IAS Officer (2006 Uttarakhand Cadre).
Shri Asheesh Joshi was Secretary (Additional Charge) of Drinking Water & Sanitation Department, Govt. of Uttarakhand prior to the present assignment. He possesses rich experience of holding the position of District Magistrate and working at Senior Position in various Departments such as Housing, Home, Agriculture, Finance, Land Revenue, Planning, Energy, Tourism and Rural Development of Govt. of Uttarakhand.

Shri Rohit Mathur, Director (R), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOP&NG) joined our Board as Government Nominee Director w.e.f 27th May, 2019. Shri Rohit Mathur is a Mechanical Engineer from Thapar College of Engineering, Patiala and has also completed Master of Finance and Control (MFC) from Delhi University.
He joined MOP&NG as Director (Refineries) in March, 2019 and is presently handling matters relating to Refineries sector, Biofuels, petrochemicals, crude oil supply and flagship programmes. Prior to this he was Director (Seeds / Agri-Mechanization) {from June, 2018-March-2019} and Director (Budget/Finance) {from Feb, 2013-June, 2018} in the Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare). He was also appointed as Government Nominee Director on the Board of National Seeds Corporation Limited.
He has also worked in various capacities in other Ministries viz. Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs), Department of Biotechnology and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

Asha Kaul, PhD, is a Professor in the Area of Communication at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. Dr Kaul received her PhD in the area of Stylistics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Her specialisation is in the area of oral, written and corporate communication, social media, leadership, presentation skills and gender discourse. Currently, she is focussing on writing cases on Indian organisations to understand patterns of communication related to strategic choices in varied situations. Dr Kaul has authored a number of books, research papers, conference papers, teaching notes and newspaper articles. Dr Kaul consults with multi nationals and Indian companies on communication, gender inclusivity and corporate communication. She has been recognized as one of the 50 Indian management thinkers who had made an impact on the theory of management and practice in the year 2015, has been the recipient of the A. P. Chowdappa Memorial Award for Excellence in Communication in the Academic Sector for the year 2014-15 and has been awarded the prize for being one of the best selling authors of Prentice Hall of India for the book ‘Business Communication’. Prof Kaul was inducted into the Board of the Company on 15th September, 2017.

Dr. Priyank Sharma is a Chartered Accountant, Ph.D. in management and IFRS from ACCA UK with over fifteen years of work experience in the corporate sector. Presently, Dr Sharma is working as “APAC BPC Leader: Finance & Procurement” with Syngenta Services Pvt. Ltd which is a pioneer company in the field of agriculture. Earlier he had worked with Deutsche Bank, METRO Global Business Services Private Ltd, Genpact and ICICI Bank in various capacities. Dr Sharma was inducted into the Board of the Company on 15th September, 2017.

Shri. S. Manoharan belonged to the 1975 batch of the Indian Administrative Service and joined on the 13th July 1975 and allotted to the Assam-Meghalaya Cadre. He had served in multi-farious assignments in the State of Assam that included field level assignments such as Deputy Commissioner of two districts, Commissioner of two divisions and Secretariat assignments such as Joint Secretary in Home & Political departments, Commissioner and Secretary to the Government of Assam, Health & Family Welfare Department, Chief Electoral Officer, Assam, Principal Resident Commissioner, Government of Assam, New Delhi, etc. He had served on four different deputation assignments under the Government of India as well. His last assignment was Special Secretary to the Government of India in the Union Ministry of Water Resources at New Delhi. He attained superannuation from the Indian Administrative Service on 31st May 2010. His academic qualifications include Post Graduation in Zoology, Defence Studies and International Development Studies (University of Bradford, United Kingdom). Shri S. Manoharan during the course of civil service career spread over a period of 35 years, travelled widely abroad and led several delegations representing the country in his various assignments under the Government of India. Shri Manoharan was inducted into the Board of the Company on 15th September, 2017.

Ms Amina Khan, graduated in Science from Mumbai University and holds additional qualification of DMLT. She is also having an Advanced Diploma in Business Administration from WeSchool, Mumbai.

She ventured into the business of Medical Laboratory operation in Mumbai as an Entrepreneur in the year 1992.

Ms. Khan is a successful woman Entrepreneur in this line of business who has been associated with Health Industry since last 28 years. She possesses vast experience in operation of Medical Lab, in depth knowledge on Security market especially on Equity segment, excellent communication skill and has the zeal to accomplish responsibilities. Ms Khan was inducted into the Board of the Company on 15th September, 2017.

Rajiv Kumar Gupta belongs to the 1988 batch of Indian Forest Service from AGMUT cadre. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad and a Master’s degree in Irrigation Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh besides an M.Sc. degree in Forestry from Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun.
He has diverse field and administrative experience in Forestry Sector and in Power Sector, having worked both in the Central as well as the State Governments. He has previously worked in various capacities at Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF) level in Mizoram especially in Forest Management, Forest Planning & Finance and Forest Silviculture. As DCF in the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, he excelled in the field of Urban Forestry. As Conservator of Forests in Mizoram he had been responsible for the Silviculture Research, Forest Training and Forest Protection. In the Central Government, he extensively dealt with Forest Conservation issues under the Ministry of Environment & Forests and Climate Change. As Director in the Ministry of Power, he looked after the development of Hydro Power Sector in the country. Before joining OIL, he was Commissioner & Secretary, Power & Electricity and Minor Irrigation Departments in the Government of Mizoram wherein he was responsible for policy interventions and development of both infrastructure sectors in the State. Having worked in the North-East India for more than 15 years, he has developed keen insight in the Forest – Tribal interface. Similarly, his experience in Infrastructure Sector as well as in Forest Conservation, he has a rational approach towards developmental needs vis-a-vis the environmental concerns. He is a keen swimmer and a cross-words solver.

Dr Tangor Tapak is the Patron, founder and member of many social organisations in the rural areas of Arunachal Pradesh and served as Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), Arunachal Pradesh for two terms representing 37 Pasighat West (ST) Assembly Constituency and Minister for Health and Family Welfare, government of Arunachal Pradesh (1999-2004). He possesses medical professional degree (M.B.B.S) from Premiere Institute of Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra University, Uttar Pradesh and had served as Medical Officer in the Department of Health & family Welfare, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh for 5 (five) years in different locations in the State. Dr. Tangor Tapak was inducted into the Board of the Company on 9th August, 2019.

Shri Gagann Jain is a Chartered Accountant (1999) and holds a BSc. from North Eastern Hill University. He joined General Electric (GE) in India and was earmarked for an Action Leadership Program which transferred him to GE Appliances in Louisville,Kentucky USA and to GE Capital in Stamford, Connecticut USA. Shri Gagann Jain is an expert in Six Sigma methodology and has won several accolades for his work in GE in the realm of Financial Planning and Analysis.
On his return from USA, Shri Jain worked actively towards the welfare of the youth of his home State of Meghalaya and became the Founder Director of Shillong Centre of Sikkim Manipal University which became a robust and vibrant educational institution with a large student base across all the North Eastern States. Recipient of Excellence award for two consecutive years form Shri. Anil Kumble, the ambassador of Manipal Education Group, Shri Jain continues to work for the upliftment of rural schools for tribal children. Shri Gagann Jain was inducted into the Board of the Company on 9th August, 2019.

Shri Anil Kaushal belongs to 1976 batch of Indian Telecom Service (ITS). He holds B.Tech. in Electronics and MBA degree in Finance, carrying an experience of about four decades in the field of Telecommunications and Management. He was Member (Technology), Telecom Commission and ex- officio Secretary to Govt. of India, Ministry of Communications where he was involved in National Telecom Policy, International relations, Spectrum Management, licensing etc. His last assignment was full –time Member of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India from April’ 15 to April’ 18. In this capacity, he was instrumental in shaping up of regulatory environment of Telecom and Broadcasting sector. He also held various positions in Govt and BSNL where he was involved in planning, operations, procurement and standardization etc. Shri Anil Kaushal was inducted into the Board of the Company on 9th August, 2019.