Alka Mittal has been appointed as the first woman to head India’s largest exploration and production company, ONGC, according to TNN report.
The department of personnel and training on Monday evening appointed Mittal to the post, 72 hours after it fell vacant when Subhash Kumar, who too held the charge since February 2021 in addition to his regular job as director (finance), retired on December 31.
On a global scale, she joins the ranks of Vicki Hollub, who made history in the US by becoming Occidental Petroleum CEO in 2016; Linda Cook, who last year became the head of Premier Oil-Chrysaor Holding Plc, the largest oil producer of North Sea oil; Catherine Roe of Tanzania-focused UK-listed Wentworth Resources Plc; and Mariana Gheorghe of Austrian OMVPetrom, the largest energy company in southern and eastern Europe, the report said.
A post-graduate in economics and a doctorate in commerce, Mittal joined the company’s board on November 27, 2018. She played a leading role in ensuring a safe working environment for 27,000-strong employees and thousands of contract workers, notably women employees and engineers deployed on offshore platforms and remote locations, to ensure uninterrupted operations through the pandemic.
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