Ajay Singh is a member of the board of Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) group, a global leader in shipping and logistics. As senior managing executive officer of the company, he is responsible for MOL’s businesses in South Asia and the Middle East. He also assists the group in its global energy transition and organizational transformation. He is based in Tokyo, where he has lived for over 10 years.

Between 2014 and 2020 Ajay Singh was special advisor to the chairman and president of Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., an international energy company owned mainly by the Government of Japan. Earlier, he worked with Shell over a period of 20 years, based in India and then at Shell’s global headquarters in London and the Hague. He created and managed various oil and gas businesses and international value chains in partnership with host governments and energy companies in the Middle East, Russia, West Africa, Europe and North America. Ajay Singh began his career at Thermax, an Indian engineering company.

Ajay Singh is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Manchester Business School and the Walchand College of Engineering.