Biswajit Roy takes over as OIL Director

STAFF CORRESPONDENT

DIBRUGARH, MAY 8: Biswajit Roy has taken over as Director (Human Resources & Business Development) of Oil India Limited (OIL), India’s second largest tiol Exploration & Production Company, today.

Roy has over 32 years of rich experience in the Oil Industry, spanning across a spectrum of diverse functions such as Marketing, Operations, Business Development, Human Resources, besides a stint at the Overseas Office of Indian Oil at Dubai.

Some of the HR Initiatives in which Roy has been actively associated with includes introduction of Leadership (Assessment) Centres and multi-rater (360) appraisal system, implementation of electronic performance magement system (EPMS), formulation of new vision and its implementation strategy, besides heading an industry team on setting up of ‘Hydrocarbon Sector Skill Council (HSSC)’.

A graduate in Chemical Engineering from University of Roorkee (now, IIT Roorkee), he completed tiol Magement Programme (NMP) from Magement Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon.

He also has to his credit many publications in tiol and intertiol jourls and made presentations at intertiol forums. He has won many coveted Awards like ‘Overall Winner’ of the prestigious Global HRD Award 2014, presented by Intertiol Federation of Training & Development Organizations (IFTDO).

He is a Core Committee member of tiol HRD Network (NHRDN), Delhi and NCR Region for the period 2014-16, for building the “HR brand”. Roy has also been chosen to be an UNCTAD-certified trainer by United tions Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on ‘entrepreneurship’.