President's Message
Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU) is a world-class educational institution in Oil & Gas and allied Energy Sectors. Modeled on the IITs & IIMs, PDEU would create a vibrant brigade of knowledge leaders in the Energy Sector. This University has come into being at a crucial juncture when a major transformation is taking place in the global energy industry. These changes are impacting all areas in the energy sector: finance, administrative regulations, tax, marketing and information technology.
The need of the hour is for professionals who can cope this transformation. I believe that this university will meet India’s growing need of such professionals of world class excellence and expertise.
Such an energy-focused university will enable India change its economic and social landscape dramatically.
I am sure that the University will inspire students to prepare themselves for life-long learning and leadership in the energy sector globally. I would also like to reiterate the wholehearted support of the energy industry in realizing PDEU’s goals in terms of infrastructure, industry-networking and intellectual capital for these budding professionals.
I invite you to join Pandit Deendayal Energy University to satisfy the growing needs of the Energy Sector and help the nation flourish with technical talent in order to bring prosperity and development.
> Dr. Mukesh Ambani's CV
Dr. Mukesh Ambani
Chairman & Managing Director,
Reliance Industries Ltd.
President,
Pandit Deendayal Energy University
Dr. Mukesh D. Ambani is a Chemical Engineer from the University of Bombay and pursued MBA from Stanford University, USA. He is the son of Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani, Founder Chairman of the Company. Dr. Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and initiated Reliance’s backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals, petroleum refining and oil and gas exploration and production.
In this process, he directed the creation of several new world-class manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies that have raised Reliance’s petrochemicals manufacturing capacities from less than a million tonnes to about twenty million tonnes per year.
Dr. Ambani directed and led the creation of the world’s largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, India, with a current capacity of 660,000 barrels per day (33 million tonnes per year) integrated with petrochemicals, power generation, port and related infrastructure.
He had set up one of the largest and most complex information and communications technology initiative in the world in the form of Reliance Infocomm Limited (now Reliance Communications Limited).
Dr. Ambani is also steering Reliance’s initiatives in a world scale, offshore, deep water oil and gas exploration and production program, setting up of a second petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, development of infrastructure facilities and implementation of a pan-India organized retail network spanning multiple formats and supply chain infrastructure.
Dr. Ambani is the Chairman of Reliance Petroleum Limited and Reliance Retail Limited and a Director of Reliance Europe Limited, and Pratham India Education Initiative.
