Mr. Praveen Mal Khanooja is working as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas since August 2022. Prior to the current assignment, he worked as Director General of Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell (PPAC) under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas from November, 2019. He is a B. Tech in Chemical Engineering and M. Tech in Management & Systems. He belongs to the 1994 batch of lndian Audit & Accounts Service (IA&AS) and has worked in various capacities in Defence Audit, Railways Audit, State Government Accounts & Audit at many field and CAG Headquarters' postings in his parent department.

He has also earlier served as Additional DG in the Central Economic lntelligence Bureau, Ministry of Finance; Director in the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of lndia and Expert in the State Audit lnstitution, Sultanate of Oman, Muscat on various deputation and secondment assignments. He has also conducted Compliance and Performance Audits of FAO, Rome; WIPO, Geneva, WTO, Spain; GFMD Geneva, and UNITAID Geneva. He has represented the CAG of India/Government of lndia at various bilateral meetings and international conferences in Nepal, Bangladesh, Austria, US, UAE, Qatar, Poland, Switzerland and France.

ln the current assignment as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, he is involved in various policy level issues on Gobardhan, Ethanol Blending Programme, EoDB in E&P, LPG, market authorization for MS&HSD, Gas Economy, etc. He has been on the Boards of ONGC and ISPRL since September, 2022 and February, 2023, respectively as Government nominee Director. He has also earlier served as Government nominee Director in the GAIL Board between May, 2023 to October, 2023.