Mr. Anil Razdan

Biography

  Mr. Anil Razdan joined the HPCL board as an Independent Director effective January 10, 2011. Mr. Anil Razdan joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1973. He is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University for B.Sc (Hons.) Physics (1965-68) and Faculty of Law, Delhi University for LL.B (1968-71). He has been a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oxford. Mr. Anil Razdan was Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Power during 2007-08. He has held various significant assignments in the Government of Haryana, and the energy sector in the Government of India, including that of Additional & Special Secretary with the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. As Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government of India, Mr. Anil Razdan’s tenure was hailed as a visionary one, with many path breaking initiatives and unprecedented activity, heralding a paradigm shift in the scale and width of operations. He is presently Member of the Advisory Group of the Union Minister of Power, Member of the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Task Force on Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Public Sector Enterprises of the Government of India for the year 2010-11, and Convenor of the Task Force for the Energy Group of companies, Chairman of the Urjavaran Foundation, Member of the Advisory Boards of Project Management Associates (PMA), the India Energy Forum and International Fenestration Forum. He is currently an eminent Energy Expert, Strategic Adviser and Consultant, and contributes strategy option and papers on energy to various prominent journals and media.

Research Interest

  ·  Material chemistry ·  Mineralogy and Petralogy ·  Industrial and Engineering chemistry ·  Chemical Engineering ·  Applied and Advanced Chemistry