Mr. Anil Agarwal, appointed to the Board in May 2003, is the Executive Chairman of Vedanta Resources since March 2005 and chairs the Nominations Committee. He became the Non-Executive Chairman of Vedanta Limited in April 2020. Mr. Agarwal founded the Group in 1976 and has over four decades of entrepreneurial and mining experience. He has led the Group and has helped shape its strategic vision to contribute to a larger purpose towards uplifting communities. Under his leadership, Vedanta has grown from an Indian domestic miner into a global natural resources group with entities listed in a number of markets, with a world-class portfolio of large, diversified, structurally low-cost assets that are capable of generating strong cash flows.

Mr. Agarwal has this year signed the Giving Pledge, a movement of global philanthropists who commit to giving the majority of their wealth to philanthropy or charitable causes. The Anil Agarwal Foundation is committed towards empowering communities, transforming lives and facilitating nation building through sustainable and inclusive growth.

Nand Ghars have been created as model anganwadis which are focused on eradicating child malnutrition, providing education, healthcare, and empowering women with skill development. The Anil Agarwal Foundation has teamed up with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2, which aims to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition by 2030

Mr. Navin Agarwal has been with the Group since its inception and has four decades of strategic executive experience. Under his stewardship, Vedanta has enjoyed leadership position in all the major sectors in which it operates. Over the years, he has been instrumental in building a highly successful meritocratic organisation, anchored by an extraordinary force of 100,000 employees. He spearheads our strategy through a mix of organic growth and value-generating acquisitions leading to Vedanta’s transformation into a globally diversified natural resources Company.

He is passionate about developing leadership talent and has been responsible for creating a culture of excellence at Vedanta through the application of advanced technologies and global best practices. He drives Vedanta’s unwavering commitment to the highest standards of corporate governance and engagement with key stakeholders. His vision is to gradually unlock the enormous potential of the natural resources sector and make it an engine of growth for India. The overarching vision of empowering the nation by achieving self-sufficiency in the natural resources sector remains close to his heart.

In recognition of his exceptional distinction in the fields of business and entrepreneurship and contribution to the natural resources sector, he was conferred the ‘Industrialist of the Year’ award by the Bombay Management Association in 2018. He is a fervent advocate of sustainable development and is committed to the empowerment of women and the promotion of culture and sports at all levels.

Ms. Padmini Somani has been active in the philanthropy and development space for over 20 years. She is the vision behind Salaam Bombay Foundation that she founded in 2002, working with more than 3 million children across India. She has been recognised for her work in youth education, health, and skilling programmes with the vulnerable and marginalised populations. Having established the largest preventive school-based programme in tobacco control in India, she has also received several awards and recognition including from the World Health Organization, and the Mayor’s citation from Mr. Michael Bloomberg. Ms. Somani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Sophia College for Women, Mumbai and completed her Master’s in Financial Economics from University of London. She has also been awarded the prestigious Silver Jubilee Pendent and more recently the ‘Distinguish Alumnus’ award by her Alma Mater. She is also an alumnus of the London School of Economics and the London Business School. Ms. Somani serves on various Boards of companies, organisations, charities, and educational institutes.

Mr. D.D. Jalan is a Chartered Accountant and has over 40 years of extensive experience in managing business and finance of large metal & mining companies.

He is currently an entrepreneur and an Independent Director on the Boards of some prominent companies. In his previous role, before superannuation in 2016, he was the Group CFO of London listed Vedanta Resources Plc. and an Executive Director and CFO of Vedanta Ltd.

Mr. Jalan started his corporate journey in 1978 with Aditya Birla Group’s Hindusthan Gas & Industries Ltd as a management trainee, rising upto the rank of Finance & Commercial head. He was instrumental in transforming the iron ore business and setting up a greenfield SME business for Essel Mining, an associate company.

In 1996, he moved to Birla Copper to lead the Finance & Commercial function. He was part of the core team instrumental in setting up and operationalising the greenfield Copper Smelting project into a robust operating business. He was responsible for raising finance, building the finance team, putting in place strong business process and systems, negotiating stable sources for long-term raw material supplies, setting up commodity hedging desk and building a robust marketing organisation.

In the year 2001, he moved to Sterlite Industries (now Vedanta Ltd) as CEO of its Copper mining business in Australia for ~5 years. He led the turnaround of the business, working in a multicultural environment. In 2003, he was appointed the CFO of Sterlite Industries. In 2005, he was elevated to CFO of Vedanta Resources PLC, a FTSE 250, London listed company. In this role he provided strategic leadership to the Finance function with a clear focus on enhancing shareholders’ value by improving capital management, governance framework, systems and processes, developing a robust Finance team. He closely worked with the CEO to drive business performance.

Mr. Sunil Duggal became the Chief Executive Officer of Vedanta Limited from August 1, 2020. Prior to this, he was the interim Chief Executive Officer of Vedanta Limited from April 6, 2020. He was appointed the Chief Executive Officer and Whole-time Director of Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL) in 2015. He had been associated with HZL since 2010 as the Executive Director, and thereafter became the Chief Operating Officer in 2012, and subsequently the Deputy Chief Executive Officer in 2014.

In a career spanning over 37 years, he has been a resultoriented professional, leading high-performance teams with confidence, and has spent 20+ years in various leadership roles. His critical ability is to calmly navigate through tough and challenging times, meticulously nurture and grow a business, evaluate opportunities and risks, and successfully drive efficiency and productivity, while reducing costs and inefficiencies and delivering innovative solutions to challenges.

His consistent focus on adopting best-in-class mining and smelting techniques, state-of-the-art environmentfriendly technologies, automation and digitalisation has enhanced Vedanta’s industry leadership. Born and brought up in Amritsar, his initial education began from DAV school, Amritsar. He has an Electrical Engineering degree from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. He is an alumnus of the International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne - Switzerland and the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, India. Before he joined Vedanta, he was working with Ambuja Cements Limited.

He is serving as the Vice Chairman of International Zinc Association, President of the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries, and President of Indian Lead Zinc Development Association. He has also been appointed as the Chair of Confederation of Indian Industry National Committee on Mining.

Mr. Sinha has served as the Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) from February 2011 to March 2017. He was instrumental in bringing about key capital market reforms. Under his leadership, SEBI introduced significant regulatory amendments to the various acts enhancing corporate governance and disclosure norms. Prior to his role in SEBI, he was the Chairman & MD of UTI Asset Management Company Pvt. Ltd. and has also worked for the Department of Economic Affairs under the Ministry of Finance.

Mr. Sharma retired in May 2007 as the Vice Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited. As Vice Chairman he had responsibility for HR, Legal & Secretarial, Corporate Affairs, Corporate Communications, Corporate Real Estate functions and New Ventures, Plantations & Export businesses of the Company.

He displays passion for ensuring the highest standards of corporate governance and adherence to responsible and ethical conduct in all aspects of business operations. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and Bachelor of Law Degree from Canning College, University of Lucknow, Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management from Department of Business Management, University of Delhi and Diploma in Labour Laws from Indian Law Institute, Delhi. In 1999, he was nominated to attend Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He served on the seven-member Committee constituted by the Government of India for redrafting the Companies Act and was also a member of the Naresh Chandra Committee constituted by the Government of India which formulated norms for corporate governance in India.

Ms. Agarwal brings to the Board her experience in Public Relations with Ogilvy & Mather and in Rediffusion Y&R . She has done B.Sc. Psychology with Business Management from the University of Warwick in the UK. She anchors ESG, CSR, PR & Communications for the Group.