Lalit Jalan

Lalit Jalan is a visionary business leader in India with a career spanning over four decades growing diverse businesses in Finance, Infrastructure, Power, Telecom, Healthcare, Defense, and Entertainment industries. Most recently he was the Chief Executive Officer of Reliance Infrastructure Limited and Group Director of Reliance, one of India’s largest and globally-known business houses. Mr. Jalan is a born-entrepreneur with an immense passion for innovation and technology and is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable and respected names in India’s business community.

Mr. Jalan graduated in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, obtained an MBA from Wharton School of Business and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Jalan joined Reliance Industries as the Group’s youngest ever CEO in 1995 where he is credited with the transformational merger of Bombay Suburban Electric Supply Ltd (BSES) into Reliance Infrastructure and led the phenomenal turnaround of Delhi power distribution business into a world-class utility post-privatization in 2002, leading to a savings of over INR 80,000 crores (~USD $1.65B) for the Exchequer.