Mr. Sanjay Kumar took over as Managing Director of Indraprastha Gas Ltd. (IGL), the largest City Gas Distribution company of the country, operating CGD networks across 30 districts in four states including NCT of Delhi in March 2022.

Mr. Kumar, a Mechanical Engineer from the prestigious IIT Kharagpur and an MBA, has brought to IGL a rich domain experience of over 35 years in Gas sector during his tenure in GAIL (India) Ltd. This cross-functional experience since 1988 when he joined GAIL (India) Ltd., has enabled him to gain deep insight of Natural Gas and LNG value chain.

Before joining the current assignment, Mr. Sanjay Kumar was responsible for overseeing and growing GAIL’s Gas Marketing and Transmission business. In the year 2011, Mr. Kumar was tasked with setting up GAIL’s overseas LNG trading subsidiary GAIL Global (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. This was the first such subsidiary created by any Indian Oil & Gas PSU and over the next 5 years, he played an important role in developing this subsidiary into a well-established player in the global LNG market.

He was also GAIL’s nominee Director on the Boards of Maharashtra Natural Gas Ltd (MNGL) and GAIL Global (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.