Mr. Gurdeep Singh is the Chairman & Managing Director of NTPC Limited, India’s largest integrated power utility and a global energy major with market cap of USD 44 billion since 2016.

In an illustrious career spanning, more than three and a half decades, he has held leadership positions with several national and multinational companies like PowerGen, CESC, AES, IDFC, GSECL, and DVC.

Mr. Singh is an alumnus of NIT Kurukshetra and IIM Ahmedabad and has undergone management and leadership training from Harvard and Oxford business schools.

An accomplished business leader with expertise in building and managing businesses across the power sector value chain, Mr. Singh is leading NTPC’s transformational journey into a sustainable integrated energy company. He pioneered biomass co-firing in power stations in India and started climate friendly initiatives like CCU, Green Chemicals and Green Charcoal.

Mr. Singh embraces innovation and a people-centric sustainable approach to business. Under his leadership, NTPC has been consistently ranked as a ‘best employer’ internationally and received awards and recognitions for its community-oriented innovative CSR initiatives and business sustainability.

Mr. Singh’s pioneering efforts in leading India's clean energy transition have earned him global acclaim, including the S&P Platts Global CEO of the year award and SCOPE Eminence award.