Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Mr. Saugata Mitra, Chief People Officer & Group Head Human Resource, Mother Dairy





Mr. Saugata Mitra is the Chief People Officer & Group Head Human Resource at Mother Dairy, India’s second largest Dairy & Food Company with 4000 crore turnover and over 6000 employees. His responsibilities range from preparing HR strategy to improving productivity by various innovative HR practices to developing organization culture to looking after the Sr. management’s compensation system.

With two post graduate degrees in Sociology from University of Pune and MBA from SIBM and with the “Valmiki Rolling Trophy for Scholastic Performance of High Order” award he started his career with Anerican Trans national, Union carbide. In a career spanning over 20 years he has been associated with various Fortune 500 companies.


Mr. Mitra is the recipient of various national and international awards. Some of them which are:
1. Sony Asia Pacific Award, Singapore for being judged as “The Regional High Potential” in 2000.
2.Sony Chairman’s award Tokyo for being judged as “International High Potential” in 2004.
3. Global Leadership Award at the World HR Congress-2008
4. Exemplary Leader Award at the 3rd Employer Branding Awards-2008
5. Pride of the Industry Award in 2009.


In the year 2008 Mr. Mitra published his book “18 Management Competencies Business Professionals Cannot Ignore!” which met with huge success both nationally and internationally. The book sold 4000 copies and was the No. 1 Business book at the Gazelle Book Services, London for more than 60 days. Mr. Mitra is also a member of various HR organization and Management Institutes.

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