Board Members

Dr. Banwari Lal, Managing Director, OTBL

Dr. Banwari Lal assumes the charges as Director of the Company on 26.03.2007 and currently designated as Managing Director (MD), ONGC TERI Biotech Ltd (OTBL) which is a Public Limited joint venture of ONGC and TERI with equity of 49.98% and 48.02% respectively, remaining 2% equity holding by five individuals.

Dr Banwari Lal did PhD from University of Rajasthan Jaipur in 1987. He is adjunct Faculty member in Teri School of Advance Studies and 15 students obtained their PhD degree under supervision of Dr Banwari Lal from Teri SAS. He also served as visiting Professor in 2005 in Department of Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences in Stanford University California USA.

His area of interest is in Industrial Microbiology especially in Petroleum Industry and obtained 10 National and International (USA) patents. He has developed four technologies namely “Oilzapper (for bioremediation of oil spill sites), “Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery” and “Prevention of paraffin deposition in oil well tubing and crude oil flow assurance in oil pipelines”. All the four technologies are patented and commercialized. He has published 100 research papers in peer reviewed impact factor journals, 2 books and many book chapters. Citation of his research papers is 9028, h-index is 40 and i10-index is 175.

He has been bestowed with many national and international competitive awards for development of above technologies viz., Tata Innovation Fellowship Award in 2010 by DBT; Petro Fed Innovator of the Year -Team Award in 2009 by Mo PNG; Biotech Product & Development award in 2008 by DBT; National Research Development Corporation Award in 2005 by DST; National Bioscience Award for Career Development in 2004 by DBT; Biotech Product & Process Development in 2002 by DBT; All India Biotech Association award in 2001 by All India Biotech Association.

He has 8 patents and published 73 research papers in high rated international journals. He is a member of Member, Scientific Panel on food additives, flavourings, processing aids and materials in contact in with food, of the Food Authority of India. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and also a Member of the Board of ONGC TERI Biotech Ltd.