Shri Kumar Shanker has taken charge of the Managing Director on the Board of MNGL w.e.f. 23rd February, 2023.
He is a Chemical Engineer from B.I.T.S. Pilani with 29 years of rich and diverse experience in the Natural Gas Sector encompassing Commissioning and Operations of Gas Processing Plants, Project Management of Petrochemical Units, Corporate Planning, Marketing and Regulatory functions.
He has comprehensive and extensive experience in Regulatory matters and has been in the forefront on behalf of his Company across a wide spectrum of areas related to grant of authorizations, open access, pipeline tariffs, affiliate-code of conduct etc. He has been actively engaged in several important policy and regulatory changes that have evolved over the past decade in the Indian natural gas sector.
He has worked in various business verticals of GAIL covering several locations in India in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. At present, he is heading the Gas Transmission Marketing and Regulatory Affairs portfolio in GAIL.
In his endeavours, he has been successfully collaborating with multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams within and outside GAIL for smooth handling of complex and challenging regulatory matters on behalf of the Company. He has been instrumental in launching the highly successful on-line Pipeline Open Access Portal of GAIL which transparently discloses the available common carrier capacities in all GAIL’s Gas Pipelines and provides a single-window platform for common carrier capacity bookings from anywhere, anytime, even through mobile phones.
He is also currently a co-chair of a sub-committee on Low Emissions Gas Task Force formed under the US-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership.
He has made important presentations on various policy and regulatory matters to the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, NITI Aayog and the Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), and they have all been well received for its thoughts and ideas.