About the Contributors

Jitendra

I PERSONAL:

Name: Dr. Jitendra D. Desai
Designation: Vice President & Chief (Environment), Center of HSE Excellence,
Group Manufacturing Services, Reliance Corporate Park, Reliance Industries Ltd., Navi Mumbai (India)
Contacts: Home : A/4, Anurag Soc., B/h. Utkarsh vidyalaya, Gadapura, Vadodara- 390 015 (India)
E-Mail: desaijd@yahoo.com; jitendra.desai@ril.com
Phone: ++91-265-6693885/ 6696358; Cell: 09998217331
Date of Birth: December 16, 1947
Nationality: Indian

II CAPABILITIES:

A wide range of administrative expertise gain through the specialized administrative and management courses from reputed institutes. Wide experience is also attributed to the Functions as Head & Leader at Universities, Industrial R&D center & Operations at IPCL- Navratna PSU; Vice President & Chief- Environment at Reliance Industries Limited- a fortune 500 and India’s No. 1 private corporation with corporate level responsibility for multi-location manufacturing sites & global reporting; As Expert member, HSE committee of National Industrial associations like CII, FICCI, GCCI, ICC; academic Institutes and state & central statutory bodies provide technical in-put on policy matters in environment, training & awareness and bridge between industries and Govt. regulatory departments.

III EXPERIENCE (Total - 40 Years)

  • Industrial Experience (26 Years, 1984 till to date)
    • 1. Vice President & Chief-Environment, Reliance Industries Limited, Navi Mumbai (2005 –to date)
    • Vice President & Chief- Environment, Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. Baroda complex, Vadodara (1998 to 2005).
    • Head, Biotechnology & Environment Science Division, Research Center, Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd., Baroda (1984 - 1998).
  • Post-Graduate teaching & Research (14 years, 1970 to 1984)
    Post-Graduate Teaching in Environment Microbiology, molecular biology, Biotechnology and microbial biochemistry at MS Univ. Baroda, SP University-Vallabh vidyanagar and South Guj. Univ.-Surat. Last position as Reader & Head Microbiology at South Guj. Univ.
    Post doctoral research at
    1) Institute of Microbiology, Czech. Acad. Sci., (Czechoslovakia)- 1975
    2) Dept. of Genetics, Sheffield Univ. (U.K.) – 1980
    3) Dept. of Molecular Biology, Univ. of California, San Diego ( USA) - 1982-83.

IV IMPORTANT MILESTONES and ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Guided
    1) Six - Ph.D.,
    2) number of M. Sc. and
    3) Thirteen - M.E (Environment) Theses.
  • Publications-127 (Technical papers & reviews in internationally recognized Journals; books and chapter in books; Ranked in top 1% citations in the field of Bio-surfactants and Bio-remediation.
  • Patents- two
  • Development of Post-Graduate & Doctorate level teaching program in Microbiology at SP. University, Vallabh Vidyanagar
  • Member, Peer and core committee for Development of Indian National emission standards for Refinery & petrochemical industry and Hazardous waste Management handling and Trans-boundary movement Rule- 2008
  • Developed “physico- chemical & bio-treatment technology package (From laboratory to commercialization) for cyanide wastewater from Acrylonitrile plant.
  • Development of Secured landfill facility for hazardous waste management (From concept to commissioning).
  • Implementation of ISO-14001: 1996 EMS and its Upgrading to 2004 standards.
  • Developed & implemented strategic environment performance (Green card) rating system to integrate environment with manufacturing.
  • Corporate Environment performance monitoring of RIL Group - with Petrochemicals, refinery, textile, Oil & gas Exploration and Polyester fiber manufacturing sites.
  • Global reporting Initiatives at Reliance group of Industries since 2005. Four sustainability reports, externally audited by M/S. Ernst and Young, and GRI A +, covering all major environmental KPI.
  • Corporate Environment audits, Associated with nine Five star environment audits by British Safety Council, London & Gap Analyses.
  • Development of Environmental Standards, guidelines, protocols and site specific procedures in line with Dupont, USA for Reliance Group of Companies.
  • Influencing external agencies- state and central Regulatory authorities, NGO, Academic Inst., Industrial associations, etc. on HSE issues.
  • EIA and Environmental clearances for expansion projects
  • Due- diligence report for IPCL disinvestment with Dames and Moors, UK.
  • Feasibility report on “Viral Vaccine project” for Govt. of India & Inst. Meraux –France
  • Human capital Management – Recruitment, Training, competency development and mentoring
  • Organized National conferences on “Current trends in Haz- Waste Management” (1999) and “Current trends in Industrial wastewater treatment” (2002)
  • Development of web-based Environment performance Evaluation and reporting system for multi- location manufacturing facilities.

V RECOGNITIONS:

  • UNESCO Award (1975) for post Doc. Research at CAS, Czechoslovakia
  • Young Scientist award (1980) from British Council, UK
  • Career Award (1981) from UGC. India\Fulbright Award (1982-83) From CIES, USA
  • Nomination - Indian National Sci. Academy (INSA) fellowship election (1988-89).
  • ICRO-UNESCO Award (1978) for “Animal Viruses & tissue culture”, PG-course at IISc., Bangalore
  • Indo-German GreenTech Award (2000 and 2003) for out standing achievement in environment management.
  • FGI award (1996) for Excellence in Research in Science and Technology.
  • FGI award (2001) Excellence in Environmental preservation and pollution control.
  • National Award (1991-92) for DG- Technology development, Govt. of India.
  • Appointed as Director, Gujarat Environment Management Institute (GEMI), Govt. of Gujarat.
  • Hon. Director, Post-Graduate Diploma course on Industrial Environment Mgt. by Gujarat Safety Council, Baroda
  • Governing Council member, Gujarat Ecological Society and member, Society of Clean Environment.
  • Member-Peers and Core committee for “Air emission standards in Petrochemical & refinery and Haz-waste management Handling and Trans-boundary movement Rules-2008 by Ministry of Environment & Forest, Govt. of India.
  • Member, Oil- spill Management task force by Dept. Biotechnology, Govt. of India.
  • Member, Gujarat State Environmental Action Plan, Gujarat Ecological Commission & World Bank; Corporate planning ten years 2000-2010;
  • Expert Member, National Environment committee, Confederation Of Indian Industries (CII), Federation of Indian Chamber & commerce Industries (FICCI), New Delhi and Indian Chemical Council (ICC), Mumbai.
  • Member, Expert committee on HSE at Gujarat Chamber of Commerce, Ahmadabad.
  • Member, Quality management and environment management committees, Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi.
  • Expert Member at Council of Sci. Industrial Research- New Delhi, Univ. Grants Commission- New Delhi and Dept. Sci. & Technol. – New Delhi.
  • Examiner for Ph.D. at Sardar Patel Univ., Gujarat univ., Pune univ. & Mumbai Univ., Indian Institute of Technology, etc.
  • Invited as a Technical Director, Saurastra Enviro Infrastructure Pvt. Limited.
  • Chaired technical sessions & Delivered invited talks at number of Natl. & International conferences, seminar in the area of environment and Biotechnology
  • Faculty at PG-courses in environment in various Universities incl. IIM-Ahmedabad
  • Participated in development and teaching of case study in Strategic environment Management course module at Indian Inst. of Management-Ahmadabad (2009)
  • Participated in Nine Five star Environment audit by British Safety Council, United Kingdom (2008-10)
  • Member, specific task forces and incident investigation team appointed by the organization.

VI. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

1) B.Sc (1968) Gujarat University, Ahmedabad
2) M.Sc.(1970) from MS Univ. of Baroda in Microbiology.
3) Ph.D (1974) from MS Univ. of Baroda in Microbiology.
4) Major Advanced / specialized International courses and workshops

  • 1. Intl. Register of Certificated Auditors-UK Certified “Sustainability Assurance Practitioner” A17495 course (2009).
  • “Strategies and Leadership for creating sustainable organization”- Business Leader program from Johnson School Center for sustainable global enterprise, Cornell University , USA & CII-ITC center, Delhi (2008)
  • IEMA Approved course on “Advanced Environment Management System auditing- ISO-14001: 2004” from Det Norske Veritas, Netherlands, (2006).
  • Multi-country “Green productivity” course by Asian Productivity council, Tokyo, Japan and National Productivity council, New Delhi. (2001)
  • Certificate Course on “Introduction to Corporate social Responsibility” from World Bank Inst., Washington. DC, USA (2003)
  • Safety professional-Leadership by DuPont safety Resource, USA
  • UNESCO Post-Doctoral diploma in “Modern trends in Biology” at Inst. Microbiology, Czech Acad. Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia. (1975-76)
  • Fulbright Award from USA & Post-Doc Research on Molecular biology of sugar transport at Univ. California, San Diego (1982-83)
  • Young Scientist Award from British Council- UK & Post Doc. Research on Fungal genetics at Sheffield & Cardiff Universities ( 1980)
  • ICRO-UNESCO & UGC sponsored International Course on “Animal virus and Tissue culture” at Ind. Inst. Sci., Bangalore, (Jan, 1978)
  • ICAR sponsored summer school on “Perspectives in Dairy microbiology” at NDRI, Karnal (May 1978)
  • Business Management courses from premier Institutes such as
    Tata Management Training Center, Pune ; Administrative Staff College of India; Narsee Monjee Institute of Management; Management Development Institute ; Dale Carnegie Institute, etc.
  • Specialized courses/ workshops on - Global Reporting Initiative, UN-Global compact, AccountAbility - AA1000:2008 std. & sustainable business excellence models
  • Six Sigma Champion – Breakthrough, India

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