Dr. Madhukar Garg is currently Advisor, Strategic Business Planning Division of BECHT.

An acknowledged expert in petroleum refining and petrochemicals, he has been instrumental in developing and commercializing a large number of technologies in Indian refineries. A graduate of Nagpur University and a postgraduate from IIT Kanpur, he completed his Ph.D. with Prof. H. R. C. Pratt at the University of Melbourne in Solvent Extraction. He served Engineers India Limited in the Research and Development Centre for 18 years until 1994, and then Technip KTI for four years before joining CSIR–Indian Institute of Petroleum in 1998. He was the Director of the Indian Institute of Petroleum for 13 years from 2003 to 2016 and officiated as the Director General of CSIR during the year 2015. His areas of specialization include solvent extraction, process integration, advanced control, simulation, and modeling, in addition to his ability to conceive research ideas and take them from concept to commercialization.

Dr. Garg’s extraordinary industrial research track record includes 28 solvent extraction-based technologies developed and commercialized, 19 breakthrough technologies in refining and petrochemicals, 16 successful implementations of pinch analysis, and 8 path-breaking developments in simulation and modeling. He has 43 Indian and 25 international patents to his credit and is the author of 100 peer-reviewed papers and 200 papers in proceedings of prestigious conferences.

He has won several awards. Some of the most prestigious are: MOPNG Innovation Award (2016), TDB Technology Day Award (2017 and 2019), ICC Lifetime Achievement Award (2013), Vasvik Award (2017), ICC Award (2017, 2024), besides several CSIR Technology as well as Innovation Awards from 1998 to 2016. He is an elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Before joining BECHT, Dr. Madhukar Garg was President, R&D – Refining and Petrochemicals at Reliance Industries Limited, Navi Mumbai.