Ajitabh Sharma, IAS — CEO
With 30 years of experience in various leadership positions in the government, Ajitabh firmly believes that public utility services in water, energy, food, waste, mobility, housing, and communications play the most critical role in sustainability as a goal and sustainable development as a pathway to achieve it. These 7 Services weave our lives — and, how we develop and manage them would make or break our socio-economic fabric of the future. Ajitabh has been felicitated, for his contributions to public service, by the: - Hon’ble President of India (2012), - Hon’ble Vice President of India (2003), - Hon’ble Governor of Rajasthan (2023), - Hon’ble Chief Minister of Rajasthan (2013), - Hon’ble Chief Minister of Rajasthan (2025), and the - Hon’ble Union Minister of Water Resources (2015). Ajitabh has worked as Chairman/Managing Director of a large number of public utilities viz. the state renewable energy corporation, solar park development corporation, power purchase company, power transmission company, electricity distribution utilities, irrigation board, metro rail corporation, city bus transport company, state gas limited, state beverages corporation, mines and minerals corporation, state information-communication services limited, state industrial development corporation, industrial corridor development corporation; and as a director on the company boards of power generation company. Most of these utilities deal with essential public services, have huge sunk capital costs and grapple with corporate governance, financial, and service-provision pricing issues. As a public utility management enthusiast, Ajitabh successfully improved the service delivery of these organisations both on quantitative and qualitative parameters. Business operations were made more transparent and red tape was cut down. Challenges were immense, but improved corporate governance had been the key to utilities’ transformations. In all utilities, the central idea had been to base the decision-making on the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) principles for achieving the long-term goal of sustainability. Under his current role as Additional Chief Secretary Energy to the Government, Ajitabh continues honing skills and gaining further expertise in Public Utility Management focusing primarily to make Rajasthan a pioneer state in the country by creating sustainable energy systems in the state.
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Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Experience: 29 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- Energy Management
- Corporate Governance
- Water Resource Management
Career Highlights
- 30 years of leadership in public utility management.
- Pioneered sustainable energy systems in Rajasthan.
- Recognized by top Indian leaders for public service.
Work Experience
Government Of Rajasthan
Chairperson, Board of Revenue (1 mo)
Additional Chief Secretary Energy, Government of Rajasthan (9 mos)
Principal Secretary Industries, Government of Rajasthan (1 yr 5 mos)
RIICOUdyogBhawan
Chairman, Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation (1 yr 5 mos)
Jaipur City Transport Services Limited
Chairman and Managing Director of the Board (1 yr 4 mos)
Rajasthan Tax Board
Chairman (4 mos)
International Monetary Fund
Trainee: Public Financial Management (1 mo)
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Trainee: Energy Efficiency in Buildings (0 mo)
Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation (JMRC)
Chairman and Managing Director of the Board (1 yr)
Government Of Rajasthan
Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology and Communication (5 mos)
Principal Secretary, Department of Mines, Geology and Petroleum (5 mos)
Principal Secretray, Department of Energy (9 mos)
Principal Secretary, Chief Minister’s Office (1 yr 2 mos)
Secretary, Department of Revenue and Colonalisation (7 mos)
Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry and Gopalan (1 yr)
Secretary Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Commissioner, Department of Industries (10 mos)
Secretary, Department of Water Resources, IGNP and Command Area Development (2 yrs 7 mos)
Commissioner and Secretary, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment (8 mos)
RAJASTHAN STATE GAS LIMITED
Chairman and Manging Director of the Board (5 mos)
Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited
Chairman of the Board (9 mos)
Jodhpur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited
Chairman of the Board (9 mos)
Rajasthan Urja Vikas Nigam Limited
Chairman and Managing Director of the Board (9 mos)
Ajmer Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited
Chairman of the Board (9 mos)
Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Ltd
Chairman of the Board (1 yr 11 mos)
Rajasthan Solar Park Development Company Ltd.
Chairman of the Board (1 yr 11 mos)
Rajasthan State Livestock Development Board
Chairman of the Board (1 yr)
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
Executive Trainee, Fiscal Policy and Macro Economic Management (0 mo)
Rural Non-Farm Development Agency (RUDA)
Chairman of the Board (10 mos)
Rajasthan River Basin and Water Resources Planning Authority (RRBA)
Member of the Authority (1 yr 1 mo)
Indira Gandhi Nehar Board
Chairman of the Board (1 yr 4 mos)
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy Of Administration
Executive Trainee (1 mo)
Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI)
Executive Trainee, Managing Land Acquisition and Resett. & Rehab. Issues for a Vibrant Economic Env (0 mo)
Rajasthan State Mines & Minerals Ltd - India
Managing Director of the Company (1 yr 10 mos)
Government Of Rajasthan
Director, Department of Mines and Geology (3 yrs 3 mos)
Commissioner, Department of Excise and Prohibition (2 yrs 2 mos)
District Collector and Magistrate, Kota and Churu (7 mos)
Director, Deprtment of Elementary Education (4 mos)
Additional Commissioner, Value Added Tax and Anti Evasion, Commercial Taxes Department (1 yr 2 mos)
District Collector and Magistrate, Bhilwara (1 yr 10 mos)
Deputy Secretary, Department of Finance (1 yr 5 mos)
District Collector and Magistrate, Barmer and Karauli (1 yr 9 mos)
Chief Executive Officer, Zila Parishad Jaipur (2 yrs)
Sub-Divisional Officer and Magistrate, Beawar (1 yr 8 mos)
RAJASTHAN STATE BEVERAGES CORPORATION LIMITED
Managing Director to the Company (2 yrs 2 mos)
Indian Administrative Service (IAS) - Government of India
IAS (29 yrs 7 mos)
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy Of Administration
Foundation Course Training (1 yr 11 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Professional Certificate: Applied Corporate Finance at University of Cambridge
Online Certificate Course: Sustainable Energy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Online Certificate CATS Course: Public Policy Economics at University of Oxford
Online Certificate Course: Energy Within Environmental Constraints at Harvard University
Online Certificate Course: Financial Markets at Yale University
Online Certificate Course: Climate Change: Financial Risks and Opportunities at Imperial Business School
Online Certificate Course: Corporate Finance: Financial Accounting and Capital Markets at University of Cambridge
Online Certificate Course: Corporate Finance: Building Stakeholder Value at University of Cambridge
Online Certificate Course: Corporate Finance: Foundations of Finance at University of Cambridge
Online Certificate Course: Water Utility Financing at World Bank
Online Certificate Training Course: Public Financial Management at International Monetary Fund
Online Certificate Training Course: Energy Efficiency in Buildings at International Energy Agency
Std: 7th to Senior Secondary at Maheshwari Public School
