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| Office | Chairman & MD of Air India
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| Office | Chairman of Railway Board
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| Predecessor | Pradeep Singh Kharola
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| Born | 1958-12-22 (age 68)[1] |
| Born | Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
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| Nationality | Indian
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| Alma mater | Institute of Engineers, Kolkata IRIMEE, Jamalpur SASKNP |
| Occupation | Civil servant
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Ashwani Lohani is a retired officer of Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers. He has earlier worked as the Chairman & Managing Director of Air India and the former Chairman of the Railway Board of Indian Railways. After being retired from Government service on 23 July 2020 he joined GMR Group where He is currently serving as Chief Executive Officer.
Early life and education
Lohani was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He completed his schooling at St. Aloysius High School, Kanpur and studied engineering at Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (IRIMEE), Jamalpur. He is a mechanical engineer; as part of his training at IRIMEE, he attended training in mechanical, electrical and telecommunications at Jamalpur Workshop.[2] He holds four engineering degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, metallurgical engineering and electronics & telecommunication engineering from Institution of Engineers, Kolkata. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.
Ashwani is from the 1980s batch of Indian Railways Service officer & joined as the director for the National Rail Museum in 1993. In 2001 he joined India Tourism Development Corporation as Chairman and Managing Director. In 2004 he also become Commissioner and Managing Director of Madhya Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation, a position that he held for almost six years in three different spells. At the end of 2009 he also served as Divisional Railway Manager, Delhi Division. After 2 years he joined Northern Railway as Chief Mechanical Engineer. He then served as Chief Administrative Officer in the Ministry of Railways.[3][4] In 2015 he was appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Air India.[5] Moreover, he has been a Non-Executive Director of Air Mauritius Limited since October 2015. In 2017, he became the Chairman of Railway Board.[6][7] In February 2019, he was reappointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Air India.[8][9]
Records
He holds an omega aquaterra 2017 Limca Record for having four engineering degrees in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, metallurgical engineering and electronics & telecommunication engineering from Institution of Engineers (India), Kolkata; a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for successfully running the ‘Fairy Queen Express’, the world's oldest working steam locomotive.[3]
References
- ↑ Ashwani Lohani bio.
- ↑ Ashwani Lohani to take charge of Air India as CMD(21 August 2015).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 AI's new chief features in record books, has garden named after him - Rediff.com Business. Rediff.com(2015-08-20).
- ↑ Ashwani Lohani in Limca Book | India(2006-09-19).
- ↑ Ashwani Lohani takes over as CMD of Air India.
- ↑ Rajiv Bansal named Air India chief after Ashwani Lohani moved to Railway Board.
- ↑ Who is Ashwani Lohani, the 'turnaround man' who takes over the Railway Board.
- ↑ Ashwani Lohani appointed Air India CMD for second time.
- ↑ Ashwani Lohani appointed Air India CMD for second time.