R Gopalakrishnan worked for his first 31 years in India’s most Indian multinational, Hindustan Unilever. Since then, he has worked for India’s most multinational Indian company — Tata.

Currently, he is a director of Tata Sons. He is also the chairman of Tata AutoComp Systems, Rallis India and Advinus Therapeutics, vice chairman of Tata Chemicals, and a director of Tata Power and Tata Technologies.

He also serves as an independent director on the boards of the Indian subsidiaries of Akzo Nobel and BP Castrol.

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