Vikram Singh Mehta


Vikram Mehta is an Indian business executive turned analyst. He used to be the CEO of Shell India and is now the chairman of Brookings India.

Background

Mehta comes from a family with a tradition of government service. His grandfather and father were both senior officers with the Government of India. His father retired as the Foreign Secretary.

Education

Mehta completed his schooling from the Mayo College in Ajmer. He has degrees from Oxford University in England. He has a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
At Oxford, Mehta was the classmate of Imran Khan and Benazir Bhutto. All of them had PPE as their common subject.

Early career

Mehta qualified for the Indian Administrative Service in the 1970s. He joined the IAS but left it after a couple of years to pursue further education at Fletcher.

Shell

After short stints working for the government of India, he accepted an offer from Shell to join its Middle East operations. Subsequently, he moved to Shell India for about 24 years. He retired from this position on 1 October 2012 and was succeeded by Yasmine Hilton.
After retiring from Shell, Vikram Mehta became the chairman of Brookings India.