Mr. Atul Bhatnagar

Chief Operating Officer, NSDC - National Skill Development Corporation

Mr. Bhatnagar is a quintessential banker with over two decades experience in the global banking business. As a Mechanical Engineer from IIT-Kanpur, his first stint in the corporate world, however, was in Tata Motors (then known as Telco) in 1985. After a two-year stint in Telco, he went to IIM, Calcutta for a Post Graduate Diploma in Management majoring in Finance and Marketing. Mr. Bhatnagar’s career in banking started in 1989 when he joined Citibank in Chennai.

In 2008, Mr. Bhatnagar joined UK-based Barclays as Chief Operating Officer in Kenya. During his stint in Kenya, he won the ‘Male Diversity Champion’ award from the bank’s global pool. Amongst all his achievements, he considers this as the most important one and in his own words the ‘Oscar among corporate awards’. During his stint in Barclays he also bagged an award for the best COO in Africa.