Mr. Utpal Bora has taken over the charge of Chairman and Managing Director of Oil India Limited (OIL), India’s second largest National Exploration & Production Company, on 18th July 2016.
Mr Bora has a rich and varied experience of over 33 years in the E&P Sector. He served in various capacities at ONGC Ltd. including OVL, the international branch of ONGC in activities related to artificial lift, well completion, testing, well control, reservoir management, crude transportation/ quality assurance for refinery receipt, work over operations of onshore and offshore fields, planning, technical cell and at OVL he was specifically engaged in framing of policy directives and its implementation, co-ordination with national oil company of Venezuela, PDVSA under projects like Petrocarabobo and San Cristobal.
His latest assignment was as Executive Director- Asset Manager of ONGC’s Mehsana Asset. Mr. Bora took over as Asset Manager, Mehsana on 1st October, 2014, which is the highest Onshore producing Asset of ONGC Ltd, where he was leading a team of about 2300 engineers and technicians to sustain production from brown fields with about 1800 operating wells, 07 drilling & 20 work over rigs, about 80 exploratory and development wells drilled per year and 38 surface installations. As Asset Manager he also oversaw Finance, Material Management, HR, CSR and coordination with statutory bodies and the Government of Gujarat. He is credited with turning around ONGC’s highest producing onshore Asset and steering it towards newer heights. Under his leadership the Mehsana Asset received the Best Onshore Award of ONGC last year.
On the educational front, Mr. Utpal Bora holds the degree of Bachelor of Technology in Petroleum Engineering from the prestigious ISM, Dhanbad, an Advanced Management Certificate from IIM, Lucknow and has completed a Leadership Development Programme from ISB, Hyderabad.

Ms. Rupshikha Saikia Borah has taken over as Director (Finance) of Oil India Limited (OIL) October, 2013. She is the first ever lady functional director in the Board of OIL. Ms. Borah has to her credit over 27 years of rich experience in diverse fields of Financial Management, Audit and Strategic Planning. She had been honoured with the ‘Best CA Professional Woman Achiever Award’ by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and had also received a special commendation “Petrofed Woman Executive of Oil & Gas Industry Award” by Petrofed, India.

Ms. Borah is a post graduate in Commerce from Delhi School of Economics and has the distinction of being the first lady Chartered Accountant from the North-East India. Her laurels include the prestigious Fulbright Hubert Humphrey Fellowship, USA.

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 32 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 IndianOil 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?) 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. Roy has also been chosen to be an UNCTAD-certified trainer by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on 'entrepreneurship'.

Mr. Pramod Kumar Sharma has taken over as Director (Operations) of Oil India Limited (OIL), on 1st June 2015. Mr. Pramod Kumar Sharma is a Post Graduate in Geophysics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi (UP) and also possesses a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) with dual specialization in HR & International Business, from All India Management Association (AIMA), New Delhi.

Mr. Sharma has to his credit an experience of more than three decades in the E&P industry in India and abroad. He has worked at various senior positions in the Fields Head Quarters of the Company at Duliajan, Assam. His last assignment was as Group General Manager (OSD) with Director (Operations). Before being OSD, he was Group General Manager (Business Development) at Corporate Office, Noida. As GGM (BD) he led the Business Development team in Oil India Limited, while discharging the additional responsibilities as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Oil India International Limited (OIIL), a wholly owned subsidiary of the company.

Prior to this he acted as General Manager (Centralized Monitoring Group), looking after Offshore Operated Projects and monitoring & supporting the NELP E&P programmes of the Company.

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. Sunjay Sudhir is Joint Secretary (International Cooperation) in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1993. Before this appointment he was Consul General of India in Sydney. He has also served as Joint Secretary and Head of the Office of External Affairs Minister (2013-14), Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of India to the World Trade Organisation, Geneva [2007-11], Head of the Economic and Commercial Wing at the Indian Embassy, Colombo [2004-07], Second Secretary [Political, Information and Culture] at the Indian Embassy, Damascus [1997-2000] and Third Secretary at the Indian Embassy, Cairo [1995-97]. During his stints in the Ministry of External Affairs in Delhi, he served as Deputy Chief of Protocol [Ceremonial] handling incoming and outgoing VVIP visits during 2002-04. He has also worked in the Europe West Division (2000). In 2012, he had a brief stint as Joint Secretary (international Cooperation) in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. By way of educational background, Mr. Sudhir holds the degree of Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (1984-88). He pursued a course in Diplomatic Practice from Oxford University (2001-02) and Certificate Courses, conducted by WTO, in - TRIPS Agreement and Public Health; WTO Law and Jurisprudence; and WTO Dispute Settlement (during 2007-2010). His publications include a Paper – ‘Doha Round of the WTO and its implications for India’, presented to the Oxford University [2002] and Policy Paper on 'Global Patent Regime: Issues, Trends and Challenges for development' [2010]. He joined OIL Board on 2nd January, 2016.

Shri Diwakar Nath Misra is an IAS Officer (2000 batch). Currently he holds the position of Joint Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoP&NG), Govt. of India. Prior to this he was holding the position as Director (Exp. & Vigilance), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoP&NG), Govt. of India. He has held various administrative positions in State and Central Government.

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 did her Bachelor of Science from Mumbai University. Ms Khan has been associated with Health Industry since 1992. Ms Khan possesses excellent communication skills 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.