Ms. Matangi Gowrishankar has over four decades of experience in senior leadership roles in business and HR, both in India and overseas. She has experience across diverse industries with leading multinational corporations – Standard Chartered Bank, Reebok , GE, and  Cummins Inc. Most recently she was with BP plc, (British Oil & Gas major) where her last role was Global Head of Capability Development (Downstream businesses) & Director of the Global Leadership Academy. 

Matangi is an experienced Independent Director and currently sits on a number of boards in India across diverse industries ranging from financial services, IT and manufacturing companies.

A career business & human resources professional, Matangi also has an independent Executive Coaching & Human Resources Consulting practice. She has deep expertise in business processes, and the full spectrum of Human Resources and Organization Development practice areas.  She holds a BA in sociology and a post-graduate degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur a premier business school of India. She is passionate about building high-performance teams and is actively involved in coaching and mentoring top leaders across several organizations.