Bio
Dr. Sangkaran RATNAM read engineering at Cambridge where he completed his doctorate in Geotechnical Engineering. He also holds a master’s degree in Geo-Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) and a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (first class) from the Imperial College in London. He has been with TotalEnergies in various international assignments since 2002.
Following an early engineering career outside TotalEnergies, he joined TotalEnergies UK in a commercial role, before embarking on a 23-year international business career with resident assignments in Africa, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Europe. During this period, he held various leadership and asset management functions including leading major international negotiations, following up challenging energy mega projects and managing complex strategic joint venture partnerships and Government relations. More recently Dr. RATNAM was based in Paris, France where he was Vice-President Libya and then Project Director for New Business negotiations for TotalEnergies across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. He then moved to Papua New Guinea as Business Director for the multibillion-dollar Papua LNG project before his most recent assignment in India.
Presently, Dr. RATNAM is serving as Chairman and Managing Director for TotalEnergies India where he is primarily responsible for the various joint venture partnerships between TotalEnergies and the Adani Group which span the entire energy transformation spectrum from legacy Gas and LNG to industry leading mega projects in the Renewables space.
In this capacity, he is also the TotalEnergies board member of Adani Total Gas Ltd. (ATGL) the leading City Gas Distribution (CGD) company in India and Adani Green Energy Ltd. (AGEL) the largest renewable energy developer in India. Both are public listed entities.
Dr. Ratnam is also the Country Chair for TotalEnergies in India.