Gurdeep Singh, Chairman & Managing Director of NTPC Limited, is being rumoured as successor to Tarun Kapoor as Advisor to Prime Minister. Gurdeep Singh, who has been enjoying as CMD, NTPC with extended tenure since 2016, will look after Energy and Infrastructure in the PMO. Notably, Gurdeep Singh served as Managing Director of Gujarat State Electricity Company Limited before joining NTPC.

He has an illustrious career spanning over three decades in the power sector. He started his career in 1987 as an Engineer Trainee with NTPC and has worked his way through various ranks in public and private sector including MNCs.

He graduated in mechanical engineering from NIT Kurukshetra and has undergone Management Education Program from IIM Ahmedabad. He has also received management and leadership inputs from renowned global institutions like Saïd Business School-Oxford (UK), Harvard-Kennedy School (USA), Darden School of Management - Virginia (USA), Singapore Civil Services College (Singapore) and ISB Hyderabad (India).