Dr. Karnatak is Chairman & Managing Director of GAIL and has more than 37 years of leadership experience in managing and executing large gas infrastructure Projects. He is also Chairperson of Centre of Excellence for Governance, Ethics and Transparency (CEGET) at United Nation’s Global Compact Network. He has championed and introduced the idea of ‘Thinking Positive’ as a means for internal motivation and efficient delivery of projects. He has earlier authored books/articles on Oil & Gas and Self-development such as ‘Asian Gas Grid–A Critical analysis of its feasibility’, ‘Project Management of Hydrocarbon Pipelines–A Journey’, ‘Words Have Power’,