Ashima Tyagi joined Platts in September 2018, bringing more than 12 years of experience in the metals and mining industry, including serving as Assistant Director with Indian Steel Association, New Delhi. She oversees steel markets in Asian markets, including India, assessing prices and closely monitoring market fundamentals, particularly within the flat steel segment. In this role, Ashima closely monitors steel demand, linkages to economic growth within various industrial segments, globalization and international trade. She has a masters in Business Administration degree from Amity Business School, New Delhi and a bachelors degree in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.

Rajiv Nehru heads the Training and Product Development division at RICS South Asia. He is a civil engineer with a Master’s in Construction Management from the University of Pune. He also holds a Diploma in Materials Management. Rajiv has more than 23 years’ experience as a construction management professional and has honed his skills in construction, contract management, business strategy, strategic planning, cost management and program management. In his career, he has worked with reputed companies like Hindustan Construction Co (HCC) Ltd as Assistant Vice President – Project Management and was the Founder and Principal Consultant at Nehru Institute of Construction & Enterprise (NICE). As the Director General of the Real Estate Academy for Developers (READ), he single handedly developed the institute for training real estate professionals. He has also worked as Director of National Institute of Construction Management and Research (NICMAR), Pune, and was responsible for setting up their Bangalore, Bahrain and Hyderabad campuses. He has worked as a project management trainer and consultant in India, the Middle East and Africa and has trained more than 15,000 people in construction project management. He shares his vast experience with upcoming professionals as Guest Faculty in Construction Project Management in prestigious institutes like IIT Kharagpur, IIM Lucknow, Power Management Institute NOIDA and more

Shri K K Pahuja has over 40 years’ experience in the Steel Industry in the areas of operations, market development and policy making. As President of Indian Stainless-Steel Development Association, he is currently driving efforts for promotion and growth of Indian stainless-steel industry. He has worked at Steel Authority of India Ltd. as Executive Director, where he has been part of corporate operations and involved in product development, enhancing operating efficiencies and driving growth plans of the company. He is a mechanical engineer from BITS Pilani and MBA from FMS, Delhi University. He has been a senior assessor for CII-EXIM Bank Business Excellence Award and has been advising many companies on their journey towards excellence and change management. He has also been guest faculty for Strategic Management at IIFT Delhi

Railway Engineer (IRSE 2004 batch) with more than 13 years of field projects experience. Skilled in Contract Management, Project Planning, and Project Management and Quality execution. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Engineering - Civil Engineering from Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College. Constantly looking for professionals who can push technology changes in the way Construction Industry traditionally works.

Have worked for 25+ years on Indian Railways. Have worked extensively on bridge management (inspections, maintenance, rehabilitation and replacement of bridges in coastal areas), bridge design (steel/composite girders, LWR on bridges, HSFG bolts, Fatigue design etc) and planning of station redevelopment projects (60+ projects pan India simultaneously).

Have completed several challenging projects with tight timelines. Constructed a 3 x 12.2 m span double track bridge in 135 days time and completed 4.5 kms deep screening work in 7 weeks!! Have experience of over 100 girders replacement/ launching events and have worked with wide variety of girder handling systems, ranging from manual to semi-automatic to different types of cranes. Developed expertise in planning of scheme for handling of heavy girders. Initiated the work on first EPC/PPP project of station redevelopment on Indian Railways (Gandhinagar and Habibganj). Have worked on formulating the PPP tenders, MCA for station redevelopment and Facility Management of stations.

Having Extensive experience in Metallurgical, Oil & Gas, Business Development , Corporate Affairs , Sustainable Development and Operation Management of Alumina Refinery. Presently, working as Group Head - Technology and looking after Technology/ Projects of Sesa Sterlite ( Group Company of Vedanta Resources Plc). Developing innovative culture in the group with a focus on Zero Discharge, Zero Waste and Zero Harm through development and implementation of state of the art technologies for optimum utilization of natural resources. Improving EBIDTA by enhanced recoveries, efficiency ,energy conservation and by-product development for Iron Ore, Aluminium,Lead-Zinc, Copper & Power business.

Successfully Commissioned and manged 1.4 million TPY Alumina Refinery at Lanjigarh, Odisha, India. As unit head in the capacity of President & Chief Operating Officer, responsible for all operations including Power Plant, CSR activities, Project execution and Liasioning with all State and Central Govt. agencies.

Worked as Vice President (Projects and Operations) and was responsible for executing the project within budgeted cost and schedule.

Prior to Vedanta Resources, worked with Engineers India Limited for 26 Years and deputed to Australia in 2003 as Chief Operating Officer of EIL, Australia, Regional Head Quarter (RHQ) of EIL for Asia Pacific Countries. Handled business development, establishment of Engineering Office, Project Management, compliance with local rules and regulations, development of operating strategies and formation of JV, execution of projects and co-ordination with head office at Delhi. Projects handled in Australia were related to Fertilizers, Oil and Gas, Alumina and Iron Ore.

Shri K K Pahuja has over 40 years’ experience in the Steel Industry in the areas of operations, market development and policy making. As President of Indian Stainless-Steel Development Association, he is currently driving efforts for promotion and growth of Indian stainless-steel industry. He has worked at Steel Authority of India Ltd. as Executive Director, where he has been part of corporate operations and involved in product development, enhancing operating efficiencies and driving growth plans of the company. He is a mechanical engineer from BITS Pilani and MBA from FMS, Delhi University. He has been a senior assessor for CII-EXIM Bank Business Excellence Award and has been advising many companies on their journey towards excellence and change management. He has also been guest faculty for Strategic Management at IIFT Delhi

Dr Susmita Dasgupta has retired in her employment as the Joint Chief Economist with the Economic Research Unit, Joint Plant Committee, Ministry of Steel after having put in 34 years of service in steel policy matters. Presently she is promoting efforts in the steel industry towards making it sharper and savvier and more skilled through her own endeavor, a Think Tank and by partnering with industry associations, research bodies, training companies, metallurgical consulting companies and other outfits to promote the intensification of steel use in the country. Among her present promotions are virtual factory based metallurgical training courses, light frame steel structures, technologies fortreatment of effluents in Coke Oven plants and telemetallurgy for easy access to steel experts and consultants. These are besides her academic interests in Raja Rammohan Roy and Rabindranath Tagore through whose studies she also promotes the learning of the Bengali language.

Mahendrakumar Madhavan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, India. Dr. Madhavan teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, provides industry training by conducting short courses and seminars, assists practicing structural engineers by offering consultancy services and leads the structural steel research group at IITH with the goal of enabling sustainable construction practices at home in India and around the globe. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA and a Masters Degree from The National University of Singapore, Singapore. Prior to joining IIT Hyderabad, Dr. Madhavan worked as a Structural Engineer at Alabama Power Company, Birmingham and is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Alabama USA.

Dr. Madhavan’s principal research interests lie in the area of physical testing of structural members and systems, numerical modeling through the use of commercially available finite element packages and in the development of new design methods for steel intensive structures. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed internationally reputed journals and holds membership in the "American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Technical Administrative Committee on Metals" and in “ASCE SEI Cold Formed Steel Members Committee". He is an Editorial board member of Journal of Structures since 2019. Dr. Madhavan is also an Associate Editor for ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.

I have Senior Level Industry experience of over 38 years in reputed Indian and Multi-national Companies like JSW Steel, Mercedes-Benz India, Tata Motors, FIAT, having lead areas of Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Strategy & Project Management in the Sectors of Steel and Auto. I have worked in Top Management positions of Director / HoD having been well exposed to working at the Field, Branch, Region and HQs.

Presently I am Director & CEO of Stallion Lgsf Machines based out of Mumbai, and we sell branded Hi-tech, state of the art, durable and affordable capital machinery and equipments of established global manufacturers, that can revolutionise the construction industry and methods. The LGSF (Light Gauge Steel Framing) roll forming machines that we sell are the answer to the future challenges of construction in India, making the deliverables faster, accurate, process controlled and design-lead.

I have an excellent academic background with a BE Mechanical from BITS, Pilani and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. My interests include reading, academics in B-Schools, Consulting and Sports.

Mr. Vidya Rattan Sharma is Managing Director of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.

Prior to joining JSPL, he was Group CEO of AbulKhair Group and managing itsSteel, Power, Cement & Mining business and previously he was Dy. Managing Director of Jindal Steel & Power Limited.

He has also worked as Executive Director of Ispat Industries Ltd, Joint MD & Whole time Director of Bhushan Group. He also worked in management position with other steel companies overseas including Socialist Steel Limited, Lloyd Steel Group and Arrasate Steel Spain.

Extremely passionate for Steel, Mr. Sharma given 36 years to the industry while leading multilocational Steel/Power/Cement/Mining operation, innovative cost effective large steel projects management and was instrumental in bringing in transformation changes of various steel corporate.

Mr. Sharma is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and has completed his Master’s in Business Administration from UK.

Mr. Roy is a Mechanical Engineer from IIT (BHU) Varanasi and Post Graduate in Management with specialization in Marketing & Finance, from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Mr. Roy has 30+ years of rich & varied experience across various industry segments, having started his professional career with Tata Motors. He has also worked at various senior & top management positions for Exide Industries Ltd., Kirby Building Systems India and prior to joining Zamil group, Mr. Roy was the CEO of Reliance Innovative Building Solutions. In his earlier assignments, Mr. Roy has managed two Greenfield startups in different geographies and was also instrumental in launching and brand building of several Concept products. He has implemented world class systems and global best practices across the organizations he has worked for.

In 2018, due to his capable leadership and system implementation skills he was assigned the additional responsibility of General Director, Zamil Steel Vietnam.

His active involvement in development of industries during his tenure in CII, he was elected to the position of Chairman of CII Pune Zonal Council for the year 2020-21

Director and Vice President, Sales and Marketing at AM/NS India and Vice President at ArcelorMittal.

Salle joined ArcelorMittal in 1985 and has held various leadership roles across the group and in a range of key division, including ArcelorMittal’s automotive business, international sales and distribution.

In his most recent role prior to joining AM/NS India, he was appointed Head of Business Transformation at ArcelorMittal Europe Flat Products.

Salle is a graduate of the ‘Ecole Supérieure de Gestion’ in Paris, France.

Mr. Satyajit Maity has over 20+ years of work experience with Tata Steel and has worked in various functions and roles in the organisation. In his current role, he heads the marketing function of the B2C business of Tata Steel.

His previous roles include heading sales for the entire western region for branded products of Tata Steel, heading marketing function of hot rolled proudcts etc.

Some of his specialities include Marketing strategy, Brand Building, Channel sale, Business Process Analysis, Business Process Re-engineering etc.

An MBA from XIMB, he has done BE in Mechanical engineering from IIEST Shibpur.

Dr. Sachin Kumar is a Senior Fellow in the Industrial Energy Efficiency Division at TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) in New Delhi. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of energy efficiency and environment improvement in industry sector. Dr. Kumar is closely involved in various initiatives being undertaken for decarbonisation of industry sector in India. This includes identification of appropriate technological solutions, focused interactions with key stakeholders, and development of policy recommendations. Dr. Kumar has successfully led a number of studies related to development and dissemination of energy efficient technological solutions in the energy intensive industry sub-sectors. He has also led the project related to estimation of energy consumption, GHG emissions, and other technological parameters for selected industry sub-sectors in the India. Dr. Kumar has provided strategic advisory services to a range of industry sub-sectors in the field of energy efficiency and sustainable development. He has published many papers focusing on energy and environmental aspects related to industry sector. Dr. Kumar has also co-authored a publication titled ‘Towards a Low Carbon Steel Sector – Overview of the changing Market, Technology, and Policy context for Indian Steel sector’. In an on-going initiative Dr. Kumar is involved in assessing the potential of hydrogen use across different industry sub-sectors in India.

Dr. Kumar is an engineer by education and has passed his B.Tech (Civil Engineering) from NIT Hamirpur, M. Tech (Environmental Engineering) from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh, and doctorate from TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi.

Mr. Anish Chopra is the Managing Director & CEO of Greenifyi Eco Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and has attained a degree of Bachelors in Technology (B.Tech.) from Kurukshetra University. After a short stint in a management role in the service industry, he underwent a 3-year intensive training & experience in construction of Prefabricated Cold-Formed Steel Buildings. He eventually continued his education in Infrastructure, Management & Leadership from Indian School of Business (ISB-Hyderabad), including an in-depth learning in Public-Private-Partnerships i.e. the PPP Model of Infrastructure Projects in India. He has undergone courses of Green Building Ratings from GRIHA (a Council formed by Ministry of New & Renewable Energy and TERI), and another Green Building Ratings course from Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). Mr. Chopra is a Serial Entrepreneur, with an interest in developing Start-up’s into sustainable organizations. Greenifyi is his second entrepreneurial venture, through which he is taking forward his passion to contribute to the environment by promoting eco-friendly technologies in various aspects of human habitats.