Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Shri Pankaj Kumar, IAS

Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer,
Gujarat Maritime Board

Mr. Pankaj Kumar, an IAS officer of the 1986 batch, is Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman Gujarat Maritime Board. Before assuming charge at GMB, Mr.Pankaj Kumar was serving his tenure as the Jt. Managing Director of Sardar Sarovar Nigam Ltd, a premier PSU of the Gujarat Government.

B.Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT, Kanpur and a Post Graduate in Management, Mr.Pankaj Kumar brings to the position dynamism and leadership honed by over 20 years of working in various State Government Departments. Beginning his Civil Services career as Assistant Collector (Revenue Department), Mr.Pankaj Kumar has gone from strength to strength and held top-brass positions like Additional Principle Secretary to Hon'ble Chief Minister of Gujarat, Municipal Commissioner, Collector of Various Districts, Add. CEO of Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority and many more.

Known be a very effective communicator and efficient administrator, Pankaj Kumar fluent in Hindi, English and Gujarati. He had completed MBA in 2003 at Slovenia and attended short term training programme at Australia in 2009.