Dr.Sanjeev Ranjan, Member, ABMP

Dr. Sanjeev Ranjan has served in the Indian Administrative Service for over 35 years and has extensive experience in formulating public policy on finance, logistics, power and infrastructure development.

He has served as a Member in the National Company Law Tribunal. Prior thereto, he has served as Secretary, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways for more than 2.5 years and the period saw remarkable improvements in the India’s World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings. The Maritime India Vision 2030 was released during the period with the aim of reducing the logistics cost, making Indian business globally competitive and making the supply chains green and sustainable.

He previously served as Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and Chairman, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). During the period, the Ministry undertook large private public infrastructure projects, adopted infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) and toll operate and transfer (ToT) for financing, implemented FASTag to make 100% toll plaza electronic toll collection (FASTag) enabled and promoted road safety through amendments in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.

Dr. Ranjan also worked on national security infrastructure planning as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence and Secretary, Border Roads Development Board. As Director, Ministry of Heavy Industries, he was involved in the formulation of the “National Automobile Policy” and vision for “Making India into a Global Automotive Hub”. He previously served as Chief Secretary in the Government of Tripura, Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser in the Ministries of Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, and Tourism, Principal Secretary in the Departments of Power and Finance.

He has also served on the Board of a number of Companies in the power, infrastructure and tourism sectors including Indian Tourism Development Corporation, OTPC, NEEPCO, National Dairy Development Board, Sagarmala Development Company Ltd., Shipping Corporation of India Ltd., Indian Ports Global Ltd. and National Highways Infrastructure Development Company.  
Dr. Ranjan received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur, MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University and M.Phil. (Economic Development) from University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Dr. Ranjan completed his PhD on the impact of information technology use on efficiency in public sector enterprises at IIT, Delhi. He also received a degree in Masters in Public Management at the National University of Singapore. During the program, he was attached to the Monetary Authority of Singapore and studied the impact of 2008 economic crisis on Singapore’s growth as an international financial hub. He is an alumnus of the National Defence College, New Delhi. He was a National Talent Search Scholar and also a Lee Kuan Yew Fellow at Harvard University.