Desh Misra

Biography

Shri. Desh Deepak Misra is Director - Human Resources, Executive Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration (MPA) from University of Lucknow. He has undergone Leadership Development Programme at IIM, Bangalore followed by overseas programme at Alberta School of Business, Calgary (Canada) and University of Texas (US) in 2013. Starting his career as Graduate Trainee, Shri Misra has left his imprint in diverse assignments given to him in three decades with the Company. He has been appointed by the Government of India to the Board of the Company, as its Director (Human Resources) w.e.f 01.08.2014. Since taking over, he has conceptualized and steered numerous sustainable HR Initiatives to enthuse the morale and motivation of the 33000 plus ONGC workforce. He brought in transparency and timeliness in Recruitment and Annual promotion process and also steered focused CSR programme across the Company in line with the social and gender inclusive policies of the Government of India. As a unique HR Initiative, under his mentorship he groomed a Team of 11 ONGCians, 6 of whom scaled Mount Everest in May, 2017 after passing through 7 Stage Training cum Evaluation process. As Chair of Asian-Pacific Resource Centre of United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Network, India, D.D.Misra has steered “Industrial Water Benchmarking Study” for the first time in India. This study would finally lead to development of “Water Index”.  

Research Interest

Chemical Engineering Chemical Technology