Mahendra Singh Mehta (born 9 December 1955) is an Indian businessman. He is a former CEO of

Vedanta Resources Vedanta Resources Limited is a diversified mining company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest mining and non-ferrous metals company in India and has mining operations in Australia and Zambia and oil and gas operations in ...

and is currently the head of India operations for

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. He is on the

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of ESL Steel, a division of Vedanta Resources, and Hindustan Construction Company.

Biography

Early life and education

Mahendra Mehta holds a BE degree in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

from the MBM Engineering College, University of Jodhpur (now known as Jai Narain Vyas University),

Jodhpur Jodhpur () is the second-largest city of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan, after its capital Jaipur. As of 2023, the city has a population of 1.83 million. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Jodhpur district and ...

and an MBA from the

IIM Ahmedabad The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad or IIM-A), is a business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It is one of the Indian Institutes of Management and was accorded the status of an Institute of National Impor ...

, India.

Career

Mehta served various positions in the marketing, finance and commercial departments of various companies in the steel industry. Mehta joined Sterlite Copper, a subsidiary of

, in April 2000 and served as senior Vice President of copper business from October 2001 to November 2002. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL), a subsidiary of

, from 15 November 2005 to 30 June 2010. From October 2008 until April 2014, he was the CEO of

. Mehta was appointed CEO of Reliance Infrastructure in July 2014. In July 2018, he was appointed as the head of India operations for

References

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