Ajay Singh is managing director of Global Energy Development Ltd., a firm he founded in 2019 for advocacy and pursuit of green hydrogen opportunities, and a member of the board of Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) group based in Tokyo. He joined MOL in 2020 and is responsible for all the company’s businesses in the Indian subcontinent and Middle East region. Between 2014 and 2020 he was special advisor to the chairman 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, and was instrumental in creating and managing various oil and gas businesses around the world in partnership with host governments and other energy companies. Ajay Singh is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Manchester Business School and the Walchand College of Engineering.