Hital R. Meswani

Biography

Shri Hital R. Meswani (DIN 00001623) graduated with Honours in the Management & Technology programme from the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from the Wharton Business School. He joined Reliance Industries Limited in 1990. He is on the Board of the Company as Whole-time Director designated as Executive Director since August 4, 1995, with overall responsibility of the Petroleum Refining Business and all Manufacturing, Research & Technology and Project Execution activities of the group. He is a member of the Finance Committee and Stakeholders Relationship Committee and Chairman of the Health, Safety and Environment Committee of the Company. He is a Director of Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings Limited and Reliance Commercial Dealers Limited. He is the Chairman of the Audit Committee of Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings Limited and is a member of the Audit Committee of Reliance Commercial Dealers Limited. He has been instrumental in the execution of several mega projects of the group including the Hazira Petrochemicals complex and the world's largest Refinery complex at Jamnagar. He has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers – the International Professional body for Chemical, Biochemical and Process Engineers) in recognition of his contribution to the process industries. He is the recipient of The 2011 D. Robert Yarnall Award from The Engineering Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvania. He was also recently conferred the Honorary CEPM-PMA Fellowship Award for Project Management Excellence. He holds 3,51,886 shares of the Company in his name as on March 31, 2014.

Research Interest

finance