Ashish Rana

Greetings! I am Ashish Rana, working with Reliance Industries in Mumbai.

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Ashish Rana, a PhD from IIM Ahmedabad, is Vice President, Business Strategy in Petroleum Business of Reliance Industries Ltd. He analyzes techno-commercial aspects of all the major value chain segments across the energy sector and prepares advisories for top management. He is an expert quantitative analyst and modeller of energy systems at national and global scale. He specifically carries out strategic analyses of petroleum refineries profitability, financial and investment analysis of energy sector companies, prepares M&A cases, tracks oil & gas markets and climate change policy developments closely. He is associated with UN's IPCC - the co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 2007 - as a Lead Author of Assessment Reports on Climate Change.

Senior Energy Economist at Reliance Industries Ltd.

November 2004 - October 2011

* Analysing economics of technology options in energy systems at national / global scale ** Modelling major value chain segments in primary energy (coal / oil / gas / hydro / nuclear), transformation (electricity / refining), and end-use sectors (transport / industrial / residential) in the backdrop of macroeconomic factors and demographics * Evaluating technology gamut in emerging Clean technology / Alternative Energy sector ** Solar / Wind / Biofuels / Alternative Transport / Nuclear / Carbon Capture & Storage * Strategic & Profitability analyses of global refineries, tracking global Oil & Gas markets * Writing on topical issues

Sr Program Officer at Winrock International India

November 2003 - October 2004

Providing Climate change advisory services to multilateral agencies, government and industry Organized training seminars for industries and state govt agencies in Kolkata and Ahmedabad

Post-doc Researcher at National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan

March 1999 - October 2003

Long-term global GHG emissions mitigation scenarios analysis and Integrated Assessment Climate policy assessment for India using Computable General Equilibrium modelling Reporting and disseminating research findings to national and international institutions

Engineer at Reliance Industries Ltd

July 1992 - June 1994

Monitoring production, quality & control in the Polyester Staple Fibre manufacturing plant Documenting Standard Operating Procedures of plant for implementation of ISO9000

Sr. Energy Economist & Vice President, Business Strategy at Reliance

July 2011

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

1994 – 1999

Fellow

Maharshi Dayanand University

1988 – 1992

B.Tech.

Concentration: Textile Technology

Hans Raj Model School

1980 – 1987

Reading books, Watching movies and theater, Listening to music of all kinds, Playing acoustic guitar