Shri Bhuwan Chandra Pathak is Chairman and Managing Director of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited.
A Mechanical Engineering graduate who began his career in 1986, he is recognized as a Distinguished Scientist of the Department of Atomic Energy.

He has a rich experience of over three decades in implementation of Nuclear Power Projects of various capacities of NPCIL starting from 220, 540, 700 to 1000 MWe of both PHWR and PWR technologies across the different sites in India. He has held several key positions like Chief Construction Engineer, Project Director, Executive Director (Projects) before being appointed as Director (Projects) on NPCIL’s Board in July 2019. He has earned the reputation of a diligent and enterprising professional for his abilities to set benchmarks of outstanding achievements in his various assignments and leadership roles.

Shri Pathak took over as CMD on 23rd February 2022. He believes in a governance philosophy that fuels progress, diversification and develops a synergy through alliances taking the organization to greater heights. He works to achieve highest standards of corporate governance building a well-defined and enforced structure that best aligns the business conduct with the objectives of the organization.

He takes keen interest in establishing and nurturing sound safety culture in NPCIL fleet and is an advocate of contributing towards neighbourhood development under the Corporate Social Responsibility.
He now looks ahead with optimism in contributing to India’s goal of self-reliance in energy by leading the most ambitious nuclear power expansion programme of the country.