Vikram Singh Mehta is Chairman and Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP). He was Executive Chairman of the think tank, Brookings Institution India Center and Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution from 2012 to 2020. Prior to that, he was Chairman of the Shell Group of Companies in India (1994 – 2012); Chief Executive of Shell Markets and Shell Chemicals, Egypt (1992-1993); and Advisor, Strategic Planning to the State-owned company, Oil India (1984-1988). He started his career by joining the Indian Administrative Service in 1978. He resigned from the service in 1980.

Vikram is a non-executive Chairman of Mahindra Electric Automobile Ltd and independent, non-executive, director of Global Health Ltd, Indigo Airlines and Jubilant Foods. Vikram is on the Global Advisory Board of Macro Advisory partners.

Vikram was the recipient of the Asia House’s “Businessmen of the Year” award for 2010. He also received the Asia Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability Award for “Best Independent Director in India” in 2016.

Vikram is editor of the books The Next Stop: Natural Gas and India’s Journey towards a Clean Energy Future and Anchoring Change: 75 years of Grassroots Interventions That Made a Difference. Both books were published by Harper Collins.

He has a BA (Mathematics Hons) from St. Stephens College, Delhi University; BA/MA (Political and Economics Hons), Magdalen College, Oxford University; and MA (Energy Economics), Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.