Nishi Vasudeva

Nishi Vasudeva,(born 30 March 1956) is an Indian business executive. She is a former Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), an Indian state-owned oil and gas corporation and India's fourth largest company by revenue. She is the first woman ever to head a Navratna PSU. Quotes You must not expect positive differentiation, she says. You should be ready to do what men do, if you are competing for the same position. If the job requires 15-20 days' travel a month, you should be ready Vasudeva is a thorough professional and ambitious executive With a larger pool of women executives, you will see more women on boards of not only energy companies but across the public sector Women work in refineries, marketing offices, and on rigs HPCL's refinery is hardly 80 km from the border at Bhatinda, Punjab, and another one is coming up in Barmer, but the decision would have to be taken at the diplomatic level Nishi Vasudeva - The only full-time woman director of an oil PSU,15 September 2013 There are women on the board of Engineers India and Oil India and as I said earlier, as long as the women in the industry give their best as professionals, they will get due recognition Nishi Vasudeva, first woman chief of an oil co, says gender not an issue at all,3 March 2014 External Links Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:Businesspeople from India