Mr. Shashi Shanker has taken over as the Chairman and  Managing Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) on 1  October 2017, at the Energy Maharatna’s registered office at Vasant Kunj in New  Delhi.

Mr. Shanker is an industry veteran with over 35 years of  experience in diverse activities across the E&P value chain. Prior to his  appointment as Director (Technology &a Field Services) in 2012, he had  steadily progressed through senior management hierarchies in various  work-centers, including the Institute of Drilling Technology at Dehradun, West  Bengal Project, Assam Project and Deep Water group at Mumbai.

Mr. Shashi Shanker is a petroleum engineer from the Indian  School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad. He also holds an MBA degree with specialization  in Finance and has received executive grooming from the prestigious Indian  Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-Lucknow) and Indian School of Business  (ISB), Hyderabad.

Shashi Shanker chairing a meeting after taking over