Ajay Singh is managing executive officer at Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) group based in Tokyo. He is responsible for the group’s business in the Indian sub-continent and the Middle East, and assists in its energy transition and organizational transformation. Between 2014 and 2020 he was special advisor to the chairman of Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., an international energy company owned mainly by the Government of Japan. Earlier, he worked with Shell over a period of 20 years, and was instrumental in creating and managing various oil and gas businesses around the world in partnership with host governments and other energy companies. These include the company’s natural gas business in India. Ajay Singh is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Manchester Business School and the Walchand College of Engineering