New Delhi: Petronet LNG Limited on Saturday announced the appointment of Additional Directors and Chairman on its Board. According to the company's regulatory filing to the stock exchanges, the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas's (MoPNG) Secretary Pankaj Jain (IAS) has been appointed as an Additional Director and Chairman of on the Board of the company. While Oil & Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC) Chairperson & Managing Director (CMD) Dr Alka Mittal has been appointed as Additional Director (Nominee Director, ONGC) of the company. They have been appointed on the Board of Petronet LNG with effect from January 14, 2022.
Pankaj Jain is a 1990-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer AGMUT cadre. He is an alumnus of the University of Delhi's Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) from where he has a Bachelor's degree in Commerce followed by an MBA from FMS Delhi. He also has a professional qualification in the discipline of accounting as an Associate Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India.
Dr Alka Mittal is a full-time Director (HR) of ONGC and recently she has been given the additional charge of the ONGC's CMD post. She is also on the Board of ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Limited (OMPL) as ONGC nominee Director since August 2015 and as a nominee Director on the Board of HPCL. She is a post-graduate in Economics, MBA (HRM) and Doctorate in Commerce and Business Studies. She joined ONGC as a Graduate Trainee in 1985 and brings with her an extremely rich experience spanning over three decades. She is the first woman to hold the charge of a full-time Director in ONGC's history as Director (HR) from November 27, 2018, and the first women CMD of the energy Maharatna PSU.
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