Board of Directors

Yann Le Pallec is President of S&P Global Ratings and a member of the Company’s Executive Leadership Team. He has ultimate responsibility for all aspects of the business, including commercial, analytical, control and operations functions. He is based in Paris and heads the S&P Global Ratings Operating Committee.

Previously, Mr. Yann Le Pallec was Executive Managing Director and Global Head of Rating Services which oversees Analytics, Research, and Operations, encompassing more than 2,200 analysts and support staff across 28 countries who cover more than one million outstanding ratings on entities and securities across a range of sectors, including governments, corporations, financial institutions and structured finance.

Mr. Yann Le Pallec has held a diverse set of responsibilities in his career at S&P. In 2016, he was Head of Global Corporate Ratings, a group composed of 500 analysts responsible for analyzing over 4,000 non-financial corporations worldwide.

From 2011 until 2015, he was responsible for S&P’s market-leading credit ratings business in EMEA managing a team of over 900 rating analysts and support staff operating from 12 offices.

Previously, Mr. Yann Le Pallec was Head of EMEA Corporate and Government Ratings, after various managerial and analytical positions in the Insurance and Sovereign & Public Sector groups.

Before joining S&P in 1999, Mr.Yann Le Pallec was a Senior Manager with the Paris-based audit firm Salustro Reydel.

Mr. Yann  Le Pallec holds a Master’s degree in Business from Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economique et Commerciales (ESSEC) in France.

Girish Ganesan is Chief People Officer for S&P Global, and a member of the Company’s Executive Leadership Team.

Most recently, Mr. Ganesan served as Senior Vice President of People for S&P Global, overseeing the people function for multiple areas of the Company across 32 countries including S&P Global Ratings, Sustainable 1, Enterprise Technology and Kensho. Mr. Ganesan has served as the Enterprise Workforce Lead on S&P Global’s AI Council.

Prior to joining S&P, Mr. Ganesan was the Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion and Head of U.S. Talent at TD Bank Group. He was responsible for the strategy and execution of practices and programs that positioned the bank and its 90,000 employees, globally, as an inclusive organization. Prior to TD Bank Group, he was with Manulife where he held a variety of senior positions in total rewards, shared services, and HR business consulting.

Mr. Girish Ganesan was named one of 2023 Top 10 HR Leaders to follow by CIO Magazine and one of 2019 Canada's Top 40 under 40 and has previously been recognized with prestigious awards including the Golden Globe Tiger Award for Excellence in HR Leadership in 2015 endorsed by World HRD Congress.

Born in New Delhi and educated in U.S., Canada, and India, Mr. Ganesan has an honors degree in Political Science and Economics, and post-graduate education in Human Resources Management. He also holds the Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL) designation.
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Mr. Girish Ganesan previously served as a Director on the Board of Association of Talent Development (ATD) and HR Professional Association (HRPA). 

Mr. Girish Paranjpe is an accomplished leader in the technology field having served Wipro Limited, India's third biggest software company, for over two decades, contributing to the rise of India’s IT industry from its infancy to its current globally dominant position.  Mr. Paranjpe, served as the Co-CEO of Wipro's IT Business from 2008-2011 and was a member of the Board of Directors of Wipro Ltd. He lead the Wipro's IT business worth USD 5.8 billion and employee strength of over one lakh, spread over 54 countries. More recently, he was the Managing Director for Bloom Energy International, a silicon valley based alternative energy company. Along with his IT industry colleagues he  has promoted a venture fund, Exfinity Venture Partners, which invests in tech start-ups. He is also a General Partner at Exfinity.

Mr. Girish Paranjpe serves on the board of Advent invested company Modenik Lifestyle Private Limited. He also serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of Axis Bank, Max Life Insurance and IBS software Ltd.

Mr. Paranjpe is a Commerce graduate and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

Ms. Shyamala Gopinath has nearly 39 years of rich experience in financial sector policy formulation in different capacities at Reserve Bank of India (RBI). At RBI, she held key positions and guided & influenced national policies in diverse areas of financial sector regulation and supervision, development and regulation of financial markets, capital account management, management of government borrowings, foreign exchange reserve management and payment and settlement systems. She has served on several committees while with RBI. During 2001 to 2003, she was deputed as Senior Financial Expert at the International Monetary Fund. Ms. Gopinath retired as Deputy Governor of RBI, a position that she held for nearly 7 years. She served as Chairperson of the Advisory Board on Bank, Commercial and Financial Frauds for two years from 2012 to 2014.Ms. Gopinath was also the Chairperson of the Board of Corporate Bonds and Securitisation Advisory Committee of SEBI.

Since 2012, Ms Gopinath has held several Board positions in large corporates and public sector undertakings such as Clearing Corporation of India, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, GAIL and Ernst & Young (Global Governance Council) and has also served as a part-time Non-Executive Chairperson of HDFC Bank Ltd. Presently, Ms. Gopinath serves as Independent Director on the  boards of  renowned companies. She is a member of the Governing Council of Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries (RIS) a New Delhi-based autonomous policy research institute.

Ms Gopinath is a member of Boards of India Sanitation Coalition  and WinPE ProClub Mentorship Programme.

Mr. Amar Raj Bindra is a career banker and has 42 years of rich experience in the banking industry across OECD and Emerging markets. He is a credit risk subject expert in the banking industry, with deep knowledge of the Asia region, having managed client and credit risk strategies over 5 global crises. Mr. Bindra retired from ANZ Banking Group International as Head of Credit & Capital Management –International, after managing a portfolio spanning 18 markets, including ESG initiatives for banking energy transition/sustainability linked loans & bonds and risk management digitization. Prior to this, Mr. Bindra was Group Head of Institutional Credit – Asia of Citi Group where he was responsible for a multi billion USD portfolio in Asia, Japan and Australia covering multi geographies, products and industries. He joined the Citi Group in 1979 and held several positions at its various divisions over the years.

Mr Bindra has completed an Advanced Management Program from University of Pennsylvania and holds a post graduate Masters degree of Management Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Sydenham College, Mumbai.

Mr.Amish Mehta is the Managing Director and CEO of Crisil.

He leads efforts to deliver value through best-in-class analytics, solutions, and opinions to companies, investors, financial institutions, policy makers and governments, both in India and worldwide.

Mr.Amish Mehta joined Crisil in October 2014 as President and Chief Financial Officer, and in 2017, was named Chief Operating Officer. As the COO, he led Crisil’s acquisitions and change agenda, while creating a growth path for the businesses he managed.

Prior to joining Crisil, Mr. Amish Mehta was the Chief Financial Officer of Indus Towers. He has rich experience of over two decades in telecommunications, oil and gas, FMCG and business advisory services, and has held leadership roles in diverse organisations, including BP/Castrol India, E&Y and ExxonMobil India.

He is a member of FICCI’s Capital Markets Committee, CII National Committee on Financial Markets, and SEBI Primary Markets Advisory Committee (PMAC).

He is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelors in Commerce.

Ms Nishi Vasudeva is a business leader with extensive management and advisory experience. She is the first woman Chairman & Managing Director of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), a blue chip Maharatna company in India. During her career of almost four decades in the oil and gas sector, she has worked across diverse business domains that include marketing, corporate planning & strategy, business transformation, enterprise resource planning and information systems.

She has been a member of several committees for development of policy for the hydrocarbon sector in India. She has also held Board positions in various joint venture companies of HPCL, in partnership with oil majors, MNCs and reputed Indian business firms, during her tenure at HPCL.

Ms Vasudeva is the first Indian to be awarded the Platts “Global CEO of the year” in the Energy sector and has several other awards & recognitions to her credit. She was presented the SCOPE award in the Individual Leadership category by the President of India for excellence and outstanding contribution to public sector management. She has also been ranked one of the top five ‘Most Powerful Woman in the Asia Pacific’ by FORTUNE magazine in the year 2014.

Ms Vasudeva serves as a Non-Executive Independent Director on the Boards of several prominent corporates.

Ms Vasudeva is BA (Economic Honours) from Delhi University and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Saugata is President of the S&P Global Market Intelligence division and a member of the S&P Global’s Executive Committee. Saugata is also the Chief Enterprise Data Officer for S&P Global.

In prior roles at the company, Saugata was President of the Commodity Insights division. Prior to that Saugata was Chief Financial Officer of two of S&P Global’s divisions, S&P Global Market Intelligence and S&P Global Platts. Before that, Saugata led financial planning & analyses (FP&A) and corporate strategy for the company; managed operations and finance for the central technology group; led integration program for a large acquisition; and led the strategy team at S&P Global’s Ratings division.

Previously, Saugata was a consultant at McKinsey & Co.’s New York office where he led client engagements focused on strategy, M&A, corporate finance, and on improving operations across a range of industries, with particular emphasis on financial services.

Before joining McKinsey & Co., Saugata spent seven years at The Godrej Group, a $4 billion diversified conglomerate in Mumbai, India. At the Godrej Group, Saugata led sales teams and supply chain re-engineering projects and worked in the Office of the Group Chairman.