Raj Kumar Dubey
Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management
Professor of Practice
rajdubey[at]iimv[dot]ac[dot]in
About
- Raj Kumar Dubey is a former Director (Human Resources), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL) and former Chairman, Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL), with over 37 years of leadership experience across BPCL and IOCL.
- At BPCL, he served on the Board of Directors and led HR strategy aligned to business priorities, with focus on HR analytics, talent management, employee wellbeing, CSR, and industrial relations.
- At IOCL, he served as Executive Director & State Head, Uttar Pradesh State Office-II, leading a business unit covering sales, marketing, operations, and finance.
- He also served as Chief General Manager (HRD & Retail Academy), where he led learning and leadership development for the Marketing Division and moved L&D from lecture-based training to adult-learning and experiential models.
- As Chief General Manager (Retail Academy), he built large-scale capability programs for about 3,00,000 DSMs/Supervisors and 40,000 dealers across IOCL’s retail network.
- He led Project Aspire at BPCL, a 5-year strategic roadmap linking HR transformation with business growth, industry transition, and organization restructuring.
- He institutionalized comprehensive talent reviews and introduced Talent Suite, an integrated HR technology platform connecting LMS, PMS, and talent systems for data-driven decisions.
- He drove digital HR transformation through an AI-enabled, cloud-based HR platform and an HR Analytics Cell for predictive workforce insights, attrition risk, succession planning, and real-time dashboards.
- He launched IDEAS platform for crowd-sourced innovation and KUDOS platform in-house for value-based recognition, while also strengthening employee wellbeing through sports and fitness initiatives.
- He revitalized leadership development through niche leadership programs eXceed and eXcelerator, introduced human learning labs, mentoring, and center of operational excellence, and is widely known for bringing practice-grounded pedagogyto management education.
