Vikram Singh Mehta

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Chairman, Brookings India
Vikram Mehta

Vikram Mehta is chairman of Brookings India. Mehta, until recently, was chairman of the Shell Group of Companies in India. | View Full Bio

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Experience

Current Positions

  • Member, National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Chairman, Hydrocarbons Committee
  • Member, Board of Trustees, Mahindra & Mahindra
  • Board Member, Colgate Palmolive India Limited, Vodaphone India Ltd and Larsen & Toubro
  • Member, Board of Governors, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gujarat, India
  • Member, Board of Overseers, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
  • Columnist, the Indian Express

Past Positions

  • Chairman, Shell Group of Companies in India, 1994-2012
  • Managing Director, Shell Markets and Chemicals, Egypt, 1991-1994
  • Joined Shell International in London in 1988
  • Advisor, Oil India Limited, 1984-1988
  • Senior Economist, Philips Petroleum, 1980-1984
  • Indian Administrative Service, Government of India, 1978-1980

Education

  • B.A. (Hons) in Mathematics, St. Stephens College, Delhi University
  • M.A. in Economics, Magdalen College, Oxford University
  • M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

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The Brookings Essay

A Deadly Triangle: Afghanistan, Pakistan & India
Historian and journalist William Dalrymple looks to the present and future of Afghanistan as the U.S. withdraws from the longest war in its history. He sees the danger of an escalating conflict between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers that could threaten world peace.

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