Ms. Nishi Vasudeva is an Indian business executive who served as the Chairperson and Managing Director (CMD) of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), a Fortune 500 company, until March 2016. She is the first woman in India to lead an organization within the energy sector and one of the select few globally to serve as the head of an oil company. As CMD of HPCL, she was responsible for establishing the organization's vision and long-term objectives, enhancing growth and profitability and fostering a high-performance culture focused on operational excellence and sustained value creation for stakeholders.
Additionally, she served as Chairperson of the Board for several HPCL joint venture companies in collaboration with reputed multinational firms and Indian corporates.
Her career at HPCL included leadership positions in Marketing, Corporate Strategy, Planning and Information Systems and has led key business transformation and organizational restructuring projects. She has also been a Member of several Committees for development of policy for the Hydrocarbon sector in India.
Ms. Vasudeva is the first Indian to receive the Platts “Global CEO of the Year” award in Energy sector and has earned multiple other honors, including the SCOPE Individual Leadership award for Excellence in Public Sector Management from the President of India.
She is a B.A. in Economics (Honours) from Delhi University and an MBA from IIM Calcutta with over 38 years of experience in the petroleum industry.
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