Dr. Sangkaran RatnamCountry Chair – India & CMD, TotalEnergies Gas & Power Projects India Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. RATNAM read engineering at Cambridge where he completed his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering. He also holds a master’s degree in Geo-Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering (first class) from the Imperial College in London. He has been with TotalEnergies in various international assignments since 2002.

Following an early engineering career outside TotalEnergies, he joined TotalEnergies UK in Aberdeen in a commercial role, before embarking on a 21-year international business career with resident assignments in Africa, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Europe. During this period, he held various asset management functions including leading major negotiations, following up challenging E&P assets (exploration, production, LNG mega projects) and managing complex joint venture partnerships and Government relations. He worked on the Angola, Yemen, Ichthys & Gladstone (Australia), Bontang (Indonesia) and Brunei LNG projects in various capacities. Dr. Ratnam was based in Paris, France where he was Vice-President, Libya and then Project Director for New Business negotiations for TotalEnergies across the MENA region. Later, he was Business Director for Papua New Guinea responsible for the progress to Final Investment Decision (FID) of the multibillion-dollar Papua LNG project.

Presently, Dr. Ratnam is serving as Chairman and Managing Director - GRP India where he is managing all the joint venture partnerships of TotalEnergies with the Adani Group. In this capacity, he is a board member of the JV companies - Adani Total Gas Ltd. (ATGL) and Adani Green Energy Ltd. (AGEL). He is also the Country Chair for TotalEnergies in India.

On the family front, he is happily married to Dr. Rina Samsudin and the couple have a daughter with the family settled in Ahmedabad, India.