M. A. Pathan

M. A. Pathan is an Indian business executive who was the chairman of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (from February 1997 - March 2002),^[1]^[2] Director-in-Charge of Marketing (as a member of the Indian Oil board of directors, since 1994), and a former Chairman of the Petroleum Federation of India (PetroFed) (April 1, 2002 - August 3, 2003).^[3]

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M. A. Pathan

Born	(1942-03-09) March 9, 1942 (age 83) British Raj
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	B.A. (Hons.)
Spouse	Shobha Pathan

Pathan joined Indian Oil in the year 1962 and served in various leadership roles, including chairman of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Some of the positions he held during his career include:

Group Resident Director, Delhi with TATAs (1 November 2002 - 30 September 2007)^[4]

Member of the Society "National Centre for Gender Training, Planning & Research" of LBSNAA, Government of India, Mussoorie (April 2005)
Founding President of the Society for Preservation of Healthy Environment, Ecology, and the Heritage of Agra (from July 1, 2006 to August 2023)
Regional Director for South and South-East Asia, Global Union Ventures Ltd. (from 1 December 2007 to 30 November 2009)
Director on the Board of Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd., Noida, U.P. (from 7 August 2007 to 10 June 2010)
Appointed Chairman of Tata Petrodyne Ltd., Mumbai (from June 2007 to March 2012)
Director on the Board of Delhi District & Cricket Association (from ? to April 2008)
Member, Governing Council of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management & Technology, Bareilly (UP) (from 3 November 2008)
Appointed Member, International Advisory Board, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2009)
Appointed as Member of the International Advisory Board, ic2 Capital LLP., London (from July 2008 to 30 June 2009)
Member, National Committee on Hydrocarbons, Confederation of Indian Industry (from 22 June 2010)
Part-time non-executive Director on the Board of Cochin Shipyard Limited (Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways, Govt. of India) (from 25 July 2008 to 14 July 2011)
Member of the Pipeline Advisory Committee of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (from 20 May 2009 until its dissolution in 2011)
Chairman of the Apex Group for guiding & monitoring the R&D activities of Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Faridabad (from 13 May 2011)
Appointed Chief Mentor (Enterprise Business) in Tata Teleservices Ltd. (from January 2008 to 30 June 2012)
Non-executive part-time Director on the Board of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (from 11 June 2009 to 21 June 2012)
Chairman on the Board of Jabal EILIOT Company Ltd. (a joint venture between Engineers India Ltd, Jabal Dhahran Company Ltd & IOT Infrastructure & Energy Services Ltd in Saudi Arabia) (from 8 September 2011 to 31 October 2013)
Independent Director on the Board of Subros Ltd. (from 8 November 2013)
External Eminent Mentor of the Committee of Planning & Monitoring Board of Dayalbagh Educational Institute of Agra (from February 2014)
Member on the Board of Governors of the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun (from 28 March 2014)
Strategic Advisor in IOT Infrastructure & Energy Services Ltd. (from September 2002 to 31 March 2015)^[5]
Gauri Kaul Foundation, Founder Trustee (from April 2021)
Member of General Council of the Anjuman-I-Islam (from 2021)

In addition to the above roles, Pathan also held large assignments as co-chairman emeritus of International Energy Advisory Council (IEAC), and U.S., advisor emeritus for Global Union Energy Ventures. and vice-president on the board for three years and thereafter served as the vice-chairman of the advisory council of the World LP Gas Association, Paris.

Pathan has contributed to various technical and management papers at national and international forums. For the past several years, he has been involved in the formulation of petroleum policies in India.

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