Gopal has been a corporate leader for 52 years: 31 years in Unilever and 17 years in Tata. Gopal has been a newspaper columnist and continues to write every month for financial papers. He has also authored nine books since 2007.
R Gopalakrishnan studied physics at Kolkata University,
engineering at IIT Kharagpur and attended the Advanced
Management Program at Harvard Business School.
He has been a professional manager from 1967. He has
served as Chairman of Unilever Arabia, as MD of Brooke
Bond Lipton and Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever, as
Director of Tata Sons and several Tata companies. He
serves as an independent director and non – executive
chairman of Castrol India and also as an independent
director of Hemas Holding PLC, Sri Lanka.
He is actively engaged in both instructional
and inspirational speaking. He has also authored
nine books.
