Asim Prasad heads the Corporate Strategy, Planning, Advocacy, and Corporate Affairs departments as Executive Director (Corporate Strategy Planning, Advocacy, and Corporate Affairs ) at GAIL (India) Limited Corporate Office, New Delhi. His responsibilities include formulation and implementation of GAIL’s corporate strategy, MOU, budgeting, expenditure planning and monitoring, strategic initiatives to expand GAIL’s business, profit maximization through digital initiatives, and performance monitoring of GAILs JVs, subsidiaries, and associated activities. During his professional career, which spanned 31 years at GAIL, he worked at different GAIL installations in different positions in diverse business verticals, such as operations and maintenance, pipeline project management, natural gas transmission, and gas marketing. He has executed several prestigious projects on Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution and LPG Transmission Pipelines. Also, as Zonal Chief General Manager & OIC at GAIL Kolkata Zonal Office, he established the natural gas market in eastern states, promoting sustainable socio-economic development in Jharkhand and West Bengal. One of his initiatives involved conceptualizing and successfully implementing a pilot project to run two 100 tons of BEML BH100 dumper trucks into dual fuel LNG mode.

Mr. Prasad holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, a Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management, and a Master's in Business Administration. He has several publications in conference proceedings and indexed journals of international repute. He is a Fellow at the Institute of Engineers India Kolkata, a member of the Project Management Institute, New York, a member of the Engineering Council of India and a Life member of ASCI, Hyderabad, NIPM Kolkata and IIM Mumbai, erstwhile NITIE Mumbai.