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Dr. Mukesh D. Ambani
Chairman & Managing Director,
Reliance Industries Ltd.

President,
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University


     
 

Dr. Mukesh D. Ambani is a Chemical Engineer from the University of Bombay and pursued MBA from Stanford University, USA. He is the son of Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani, Founder Chairman of the Company. Dr. Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and initiated Reliance’s backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals, petroleum refining and oil and gas exploration and production.

In this process, he directed the creation of several new world-class manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies that have raised Reliance’s petrochemicals manufacturing capacities from less than a million tonnes to about twenty million tonnes per year.

Dr. Ambani directed and led the creation of the world’s largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, India, with a current capacity of 660,000 barrels per day (33 million tonnes per year) integrated with petrochemicals, power generation, port and related infrastructure.

He had set up one of the largest and most complex information and communications technology initiative in the world in the form of Reliance Infocomm Limited (now Reliance Communications Limited).

Dr. Ambani is also steering Reliance’s initiatives in a world scale, offshore, deep water oil and gas exploration and production program, setting up of a second petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, development of infrastructure facilities and implementation of a pan-India organized retail network spanning multiple formats and supply chain infrastructure.

Dr. Ambani is the Chairman of Reliance Petroleum Limited and Reliance Retail Limited and a Director of Reliance Europe Limited, and Pratham India Education Initiative.

   
 
Members
 
Prof. Paritosh K. Banik
Director General,
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum
University
Shri D. J. Pandian, IAS
Principal Secretary to GoG.
Energy & Petrochemical Dept.
Gandhinagar
Shri Hashmukh Adhia, IAS
Principal Secretary,
(Higher and Tech. Education)
Government of Gujarat,
Gandhinagar
Shri Tapan Ray, IAS
Vice Chairman & Managing Trustee
Gujarat Energy Research &
Management Institute (GERMI)
Managing Director, GSPC Ltd.
Gandhinagar
Prof. Mohan Kelkar
Chairman and Williams Endowed
Chair Professor in Petroleum Engineering
TUCRS Director University of Tulsa
Shri Vikram Singh Mehta
Chairman
The Shell Group of Companies in India
Mumbai
Shri Sudhir Mehta
Chairman, Torrent Group
Ahmedabad
Dr. R. A. Mashelkar
FRS Bhatnagar Fellow
National Chemical Laboratory
Pune
Prof. Nigam Dave
Dean, Faculty of Liberal Studies
School of Liberal studies
PDPU
Shri. K. V. Kamath
Non –Executive Chairman, Infosys
& Non-Executive Chairman, 
ICICI Bank Limited
Mumbai
Mrs. Pallavi Shroff
Partner,
Amarchand Mangaldas
New Delhi
  Registrar, PDPU, will be the Ex-officio Secretary of the Board of Governors, PDPU