About the Speaker

Dr. Sanjeev Ranjan has served in the Indian Administrative Service for over 35 years and has extensive experience in formulating public policy on finance, logistics, power and infrastructure development. He assumed the post of Secretary, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways on 30 April 2020. He has previously served as Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and Chairman, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

Dr. Ranjan has also worked on national security infrastructure planning as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence and Secretary, Border Roads Development Board. As Director, Ministry of Heavy Industries, he was involved in the formulation of the “National Automobile Policy” and vision for “Making India into a Global Automotive Hub”. He has previously served as Chief Secretary in the Government of Tripura, Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser in the Ministries of Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, and Tourism, Principal Secretary in the Departments of Power and Finance. He has also served on the Board of a number of Companies in the power, infrastructure and tourism sectors including NHIDCL, SCI, ITDC, OTPC, NEEPCO and NDDB.

Dr. Ranjan received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur, MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University and M.Phil. (Economic Development) from University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Dr. Ranjan completed his PhD on the impact of information technology use on efficiency in public sector enterprises at IIT, Delhi. He also received a degree in master’s in Public Management at the National University of Singapore. During the program, he was attached to the Monetary Authority of Singapore and studied the impact of 2008 economic crisis on Singapore’s growth as an international financial hub. He is an alumnus of the National Defense College, New Delhi. He was a National Talent Search Scholar and also a Lee Kuan Yew Fellow at Harvard University.