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.