CSR Committee

Dr. Dipankar Saharia, MD-OTBL, Member
Dr. Dipankar Saharia is the Managing Director of ONGC TERI Biotech Ltd (OTBL) from 1st July 2025.

Dr Saharia is also the Senior Director at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi and leads TERI’s Social Transformation and Strategic Alliance Programme, which includes Social Transformation and CSR Division, Environment Education and Awareness Division, Knowledge Resource Centres and a few other research Divisions and also heads TERI's Administrative Services Division and Regional Centres. Earlier he was heading TERI’s North-Eastern Regional Centre, and was Associate Director of the Environmental & Industrial Biotechnology Division of TERI.

He was with the Government of Assam as an officer of the Assam Civil Services. He held the positions of Assistant Commissioner and later Officer on Special Duty at the Personnel Department and Science & Technology Department, Government of Assam from 1997 to 2009 and was also on deputation to TERI. Dr Saharia also worked with TERI from 1995 to 1996 for the Tissue Culture Pilot Project (now MTP) before joining Assam Civil Service.

Dr Saharia has a Masters in Science and Ph.D. from Gauhati University. His expertise lies in the areas of biotechnology, natural resource management and rural development, integrated water resource management, and he has executed projects in the fields of Natural Resources, watershed management (planning, management & implementation), Bioremediation, Renewable Energy, Micropropagation, Biofuels and Carbon Finance.

He has published 24 research papers in national and international journals.